scholarly journals Rethinking History through Communication. The "public sphere" as a civic "imagined community" in late 19th century Portugal

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Miguel Sardica
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

The Public Sphere and Liberalism in Mexico from the Mid-19th Century to the 1930s

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo A. Piccato
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
New Order ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Right

Free speech was a greater concern for Mexican politicians, legislators, and intellectuals during the 19th century than electoral democracy. This can be easily verified by looking at the large number of laws, decrees, trials, appeals, and polemics provoked by contradictory efforts to guarantee the right to express reasonable opinions, formulated since the 1812 Cádiz Constitution, and the concern to limit that freedom for the preservation of stability, morality, religion, and honor. Mexican public men spent considerably more energy reading and arguing about written words than counting votes. Yet the historiography of Mexican liberalism has, for the most part, stressed the history of frustrated attempts to expand representation and thus consolidate sovereignty. This article looks at the public sphere as a space for but also of contention. Politics, as was understood by most political agents of the time, took place in that virtual space, and a good part of political conflict revolved around the right to speak on behalf of public opinion. The broader arc to be described here starts with the contentious and romantic decades since the 1857 Constitution consecrated free speech and press juries and moves through the taming of the press using legal reforms and politically motivated prosecutions under Porfirio Díaz, to the consolidation of a new order in which a diverse and prosperous press struck an understanding with the post revolutionary regime to constrain the possibilities of political debate, around 1930.

scholarly journals Were capitalists interested only in profit in the 19th century? An example of Jan Gottlieb Bloch

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
pp. 103-115
Author(s):  
Andrzej Pieczewski
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The 19Th Century

The social class which was the spiritus movens of rapid economic transformation in the lands of the Kingdom of Poland in the nineteenth century was the bourgeoisie. In the public sphere, there is still a strong conviction among contemporary Poles about the moral defects of capitalists, for whom, according to the prevailing stereotypes, only profit was important. The author of this article, to contradict this claim, gives an example of the life and actions of Jan Gottlieb Bloch (1836–1902). The aim of the article is to present the broad economic, social and scientific activity of Bloch as a member of the bourgeoisie of the Kingdom of Poland. The author also points to the need for further research on the work of Jan Bloch, especially in the field of his economic and irenological writing.

The Early Chinese Press and the Agency of Its Readers: The Dynamics of the Transcultural Spread of the “Press” as an Institution

Itinerario ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 412-434
Author(s):  
Rudolf Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
The Public ◽  
National Space ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Subjective Side

AbstractHabermas saw the public sphere as coterminous with the national space. Anderson dreamed of newspaper readers facing the same paper for breakfast forming an “imagined community,” which he saw as vital for supplementing the subjective side of nationhood. Historical evidence supports neither proposition. Both remain locked in a nation-state focused history and have to sideline large and crucial parts of the record. This article studies two early Chinese-language periodical publications characterised by their radical difference to the standard European models, the East Western Monthly Magazine (1833–1838) and the Shenbao (1872–1949), and considers the implications of these examples for dominant conceptual frameworks.

Literary Societies in Russia in the First Half of the 19th Century: Approaches to an Interdisciplinary Description

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 5-18
Author(s):  
A. S. Bodrova ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Review Article ◽  
The Public ◽  
Institutional Approach ◽  
Literary Societies ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The 19Th Century

The review article systematizes the principle achievements in the studies of the literary societies and associations in the Russian and foreign historiography of the 1990–2010s, and analyzes approaches to this material within the framework of various disciplines and methodologies. The author suggests an institutional approach as the basis for the development of a conceptual and fact-fortified language for describing the literary societies in Russia in the fi rst half of the 19th century. An institutional approach provides an opportunity to link the history of the literary associations with the broader socio-historical context and to describe the role played by the literary societies in the formation of the «public sphere» and civil society in the 19th-century Russia

scholarly journals Theater auf dem flachen Land. Bürgerliche Öffentlichkeit zwischen Provinz und Metropole

2021 ◽  
pp. 649-683
Author(s):  
Oliver Kühschelm ◽  
Gertrude Langer-Ostrawsky
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Sphere ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The 19Th Century

Theatre in the Countryside. The Middle Classes and the Public Sphere between the Provinces and the Metropolis. The Archduchy of Austria below the Enns is particularly suited to tracing the development of a provincial theatrical landscape and investigating its relation to the metropolis, since in the crownland’s centre lay Vienna, one of the largest cities in the world around 1900. The article therefore ex- amines the formation of a bourgeois cultural sphere in those parts of Lower Austria that were then known as the “flat countryside” and which roughly correspond to today’s federal state. During the 19th century, there emerged a theatrical landscape whose principal features proved to be long-lasting and which nevertheless remained a precarious phenomenon. This also applies if we discuss theatre as an expression of the bourgeois public sphere – in both its sense as a theatre business sustained by the middle classes and as the promise to enable participation by a broad public beyond the boundaries of classes and estates.

scholarly journals Dialogues about the Rights of Nobility Assembly in the Context of the Electoral Conflicts in Russia of the First Quarter of the 19th Century

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-67
Author(s):  
D. V. Timofeev ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Local Administration ◽  
Conflicts Of Interests ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
General Opinion

The article presents the results of a research how, in the first quarter of the 19th century, nobility assemblies expressed their disagreement with the governor’s decision not to confirm the results of vote or to discharge the elected candidates for the positions of noble leaders, employees of local administration and court. Historical sources for the research are individual complaints and collective applications of nobility assemblies, reports of governors, and the orders of the Minister of Internal Affairs on the question of elections. Attention is paid to the language features of the texts and the arguments used by the representatives of nobility assemblies regarding their right to challenge the governor’s decisions, even if their position contradicted the operating legal norms. As a result, several interconnected rational and emotional arguments were revealed: the arguments of “honour”, “service” and “general opinion”. The author states that the electoral conflicts in Russia of the last third of the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries, regardless of whether they were the conflicts of values or the conflicts of interests, were a factor of the emergence of elements of the public sphere and proto-institutes of civil society in Russia.

Talkback, Community and the Public Sphere

2007 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Fitzgerald ◽  
William Housley
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Relationship

This paper explores the relationship between the audience of commercial talkback radio and the actual existing democratic public sphere in Australia. Drawing upon Anderson's (1987) notion of an imagined community and Warner's (2002) discussion of publics, the paper suggests that two different but entwined modes of address operate around the talkback audience. The first centres on the active creation of an imagined community brought into being and maintained through host and caller interaction, whilst the second, which is dependent on this prior formation, involves the audience being treated as a political public within the public sphere.

scholarly journals PHILOSOPHERS IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE OF THE CITIES - THE BIRTH OF THE NATIONAL PHILOSOPHIES FROM THE SPIRIT OF THE EDITORIAL OFFICES AND SALOONS IN THE 19TH CENTURY / FILOSOFAI VIEŠOJOJE MIESTŲ ERDVĖJE: NACIONALINIŲ FILOSOFIJŲ ATSIRADIMAS REDAKTORIŲ BIURŲ IR SALONŲ ATMOSFEROJE XIX AMŽIUJE

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-20
Author(s):  
Béla Mester
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Hungarian Academy ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Press ◽  
Hungarian Case ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The 19Th Century

The aim of our paper is to offer an analysis of the phenomenon of the national philosophy of the 19th century. We will analyse this concept as a consequence of the emergence of the public sphere of the city in the function of the cultural capital of a national culture and the centre of the press. Our instance is the development of the philosophical public sphere of the double cities on the opposite banks of the Danube, Buda and Pest (today Budapest). This public sphere was organised in native language by the newly established organisations of the literature, humanities and sciences, such as different societies of writers, with a distinguished role of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS, since 1825). By our hypothesis, it is not an accident phenomenon that the topic of the national philosophy has emerged within the framework of this new public sphere. Expressed more clearly, the concept of the national philosophy depends on a special grade of the development of the public sphere of the centre of the national press – at least in the Hungarian case. Santrauka Straipsnio tikslas – pateikti XIX a. nacionalinės filosofijos fenomeno analizę. Šis konceptas čia analizuojamas kaip viešosios miesto sferos iškilimo rezultatas, neatsiejamas nuo nacionalinės kultūros ir spaudos centro kultūrinio kapitalo. Tiriama dvejopų miestų filosofinės viešosios sferos raida kaip priešprieša Danubės, Budos ir Pešto (šiandien Budapešto) bankams. Ši viešoji sfera buvo organizuojama gimtą ja kalba naujai įsteigtų literatūros, humanitarinų ir kitų mokslų organizacijų, tokių kaip skirtingos rašytojų bendruomenės, ypatingą vaidmenį atliekant Vengrijos mokslų akademijai (nuo 1825 m.). Pagal čia pateikiamą hipotezę neatsitiktinai nacionalinės filosofijos tema iškilo naujoje viešojoje sferoje. Tiksliau tariant, nacionalinės filosofijos konceptas priklauso nuo atitinkamai besiplėtojančios nacionalinės spaudos centro viešosios sferos – bent jau Vengrijos atveju.

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