Social Science Research Council
A Family of Public Spheres
Submitted by Michael Schudson, University of California, San Diego and Columbia UniversityThe concept of the public sphere, as developed by Jurgen Habermas, is both historically descriptive and normative. It identifies a historical formation that arose in late 18th century western Europe and it posits a model of what a good society should be. No one still longs to recover the highly idealized late 18th-early 19th century […]