Jürgen Habermas, The structural transformation of the public sphere: an inquiry into a category of bourgeois society

Este artigo visa elucidar o problema-chave inscrito no contexto da publicidade burguesa: a subversão do princípio da publicidade (Öffentlichkeit). Este é analisado sob o ponto de vista histórico na obra Mudança Estrutural da Esfera Pública, e está inserido no contexto onde se desenvolve a noção de esfera pública: a instância em que se forma a opinião pública (salões, livros, jornais). Opinião esta que tinha no início funções críticas com relação ao poder e que mais tarde foi refuncionalizada para canalizar o assentimento dos governados. Para tal, cabe esclarecer como Habermas aborda as funções críticas e manipulativas da publicidade. Nesse sentido, o objetivo é esclarecer e identificar o que vem a ser o princípio de publicidade e porque o mesmo é subvertido. O texto é dividido em três partes: a relação da esfera pública literária com a esfera pública política (1); a publicidade como princípio de mediação entre a política e a moral (2); e, por fim, a subversão do princípio da publicidade (3).

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Informing the public sphere: Walter Lippmann on democracy and news, with a coda on Jurgen Habermas

10.4337/9781789903584.00046 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 415-430

Author(s):

Sue Curry Jansen

Keyword(s):

Public Sphere ◽

Jürgen Habermas ◽

The Public ◽

Jurgen Habermas ◽

Walter Lippmann ◽

The Public Sphere

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What Scope for Ethics in the Public Sphere? Principled Autonomy and the Antinomy of Practical Reason

Studies in Christian Ethics ◽

10.1177/0953946819869171 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 32 (4) ◽

pp. 485-498

Author(s):

Maureen Junker-Kenny

Keyword(s):

Public Sphere ◽

Practical Reason ◽

John Rawls ◽

Public Reason ◽

Human Agency ◽

Jürgen Habermas ◽

The Public ◽

Jurgen Habermas ◽

The Public Sphere

Concepts of ‘public reason’ vary according to the underlying understandings of theoretical and practical reason; they make a difference to what can be argued for in the public sphere as justified expectations to oneself and fellow-citizens. What is the significance for the scope of ethics when two neo-Kantian theorists of public reason, John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas, propose a reduced reading of the ‘antinomy’ highlighted in Kant’s analysis of practical reason? The desire for meaning, unrelinquishable for humans, is frustrated when moral initiatives are met with hostility. Kant resolves the antinomy between morality and happiness by invoking the concept of a creator God whose concern that our anticipatory moral actions should not fail encourages the hope on which human agency relies. Defining the scope of ethics by the unconditional character of reason ( Vernunft) rules out the minimisation of ethics to what can safely be expected to be delivered.

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Member of a school or exponent of a paradigm? Jürgen Habermas and critical theory

European Journal of Social Theory ◽

10.1177/1368431015622049 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 252-274 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Stefan Müller-Doohm

Keyword(s):

Critical Theory ◽

Public Sphere ◽

Communication Theory ◽

Frankfurt School ◽

The Novel ◽

Jürgen Habermas ◽

The Public ◽

Jurgen Habermas ◽

Constitutional State ◽

The Public Sphere

The label ‘Frankfurt School’ became popular in the ‘positivism dispute’ in the mid-1960s, but this article shows that it is wrong to describe Jürgen Habermas as representing a ‘second generation’ of exponents of critical theory. His communication theory of society is intended not as a transformation of, but as an alternative to, the older tradition of thought represented by Adorno and Horkheimer. The novel and innovative character of Habermas’s approach is demonstrated in relation to three thematic complexes: (1) the public sphere and language; (2) democracy and the constitutional state; and (3) system and lifeworld as categories for a theory of modernity.

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