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The Public Sphere.
- Source :
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Theory, Culture & Society . Mar-May2006, Vol. 23 Issue 2/3, p607-611. 5p. - Publication Year :
- 2006
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Abstract
- The article situates the issue of the public sphere as a phenomenon that is historically bound and culturally specific. According to this point of view, the Western practices and the Western way of thinking about the public sphere appear as a historically particular way of dealing with the more general phenomenon which is the creation of a social bond beyond the family. Looking at the self-contradictory effects of the ‘modern’ Western public sphere, the question is asked whether the public association of self-interested or self-governing individuals might have to be theorized as a partial and insufficient solution to the social bond. A comparative perspective shows that it is not individuals but cultural forms that link people in the public sphere. They do so by providing a narrative basis of discourses and/or markets that in the self-understanding of modernity shape social life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02632764
- Volume :
- 23
- Issue :
- 2/3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Theory, Culture & Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 21546872
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276406062705