Social Science Research Council
Archived: Last updated 06/12/12
This essay forum strives to build an integrative discussion for a fragmented interdisciplinary field of study on the public sphere.
Featured Essays
- Marc Lynch: Political Science and the New Arab Public Sphere
- Erik S. Reinert: Economics and the Public Sphere: The Rise of Esoteric Knowledge, Refeudalization, Crisis and Renewal
- Axel Honneth: Idiosyncrasy as a Tool of Knowledge: Social Criticism in the Age of the Normalized Intellectual
- Jacques Revel: Public Uses of History: Expectations and Ambiguities
- Mark Thoma: New Forms of Communication and the Public Mission of Economics: Overcoming the Great Disconnect
- Wolfgang Streeck: Public Sociology as a Return to Political Economy
- Michael Burawoy: The Return of the Repressed: Recovering the Public Face of U.S. Sociology
- Thomas Bender: Historians in Public
- Lisa Anderson: ‘Too Much Information:’ International Affairs, Political Science and the Public Sphere
- Rogers M. Smith: Political Science and the Public Sphere in the 21st Century
- Michael Burawoy: Redefining the Public University: Developing an Analytical Framework
- Stephen Walt: International Affairs and the Public Sphere
- Rakesh Khurana: Why Are There Business Schools in Universities?
- Seyla Benhabib: The Arab Spring: Religion, Revolution and the Public Square
- Herbert J. Gans: Toward a Public Social Science
- Tony Judt: The Disintegration of the Public Sector: Recasting Public Conversation
- Jürgen Habermas: An Avantgardistic Instinct for Relevances: Intellectuals and their Public
- Rogers M. Smith: The Public Responsibilities of Political Science
Special Feature: 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Wall
- Overview
- Andrew Arato: From Revolutionaries to External Vanguards
- Mark R. Beissinger: How the Impossible Becomes Inevitable: The Public Sphere and the Collapse of Soviet Communism
- Hauke Brunkhorst: After 1989 and Beyond: Three Theses
- Jeffrey Goldfarb:The Not So Lost Treasure of the Revolutionary Tradition: 1989 and the Politics of Small Things
- Jack Goldstone: Why no Green Revolution in Iran? 1989 vs. 2009
- Julia Hell: Dissolution / Revolution: Uwe Tellkamp’s post-89 Novel Der Turm and the Peculiar Configuration of the Public Sphere in the Late GDR
- Konrad H. Jarausch: People Power? Explaining 1989
- Michael D. Kennedy:Public Spheres, Private Lives, and Roundtable Negotiations in 1989 and 2009
- Elzbieta Matynia: 1989 and the Theater of Politics
- Steven Pfaff: From Revolution to Reunification: The East German Wende Two Decades Later
Other Essays
- Craig Calhoun: Social Science for Public Knowledge
- Herbert J. Gans: A Sociology for Public Sociology
- Lauren Berlant:Affect, Noise, Silence, Protest: Ambient Citizenship
- Michael Schudson: A Family of Public Spheres
- Shanto Iyengar and James Curran: Media Systems, News Delivery and Citizens’ Knowledge of Current Affairs
- Michael X. Delli Carpini: The Inherent Arbitrariness of the ‘News’ versus ‘Entertainment’ Distinction
- Craig Calhoun: Remaking America: Public Institutions and the Public Good
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