History of the Public Sphere
All the systematic key issues laid out in the other sections of this guide are relevant to the comparative and historical study of the public sphere. This section compiles literature on the history of the public sphere, addressing some of these issues. This includes literature on the formation of the public sphere, on its transformation, on the political geography of the history of the public sphere, on the public sphere in periods of social and economic crisis, and on premodern settings of deliberation.
