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Jürgen Habermas’s The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1989b; 1962) is an immensely rich and influential book that has had a major impact in a variety of disciplines. It has also received detailed critique and generated extremely productive discussions of liberal democracy, civil society, public life, social changes in the twentieth century, and other issues. Few books of the second half of the twentieth century have been so seriously discussed in so many different fields and continue, more than 50 years after its initial publication in 1962, to create controversy and insight.
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Kellner, D. (2014). Habermas, the Public Sphere, and Democracy. In: Boros, D., Glass, J.M. (eds) Re-Imagining Public Space. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137373311_2
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