Beyond the Public Sphere: Opinions, publics, spaces in early modern Europe
Beyond the Public Sphere: Opinions, publics, spaces in early modern Europe
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超越公共领域:近代早期欧洲的观点、公众、空间
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2012
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M. Rospocher
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Beyond the Public Sphere. Opinions, Publics, Spaces in Early Modern Europe deals with a topic that is becoming increasingly central to recent historiography: political communication, the circulation of news, the making of an early modern public opinion. The notion of the public sphere is inextricably bound to the name of Jürgen Habermas. With his Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit (1962) the German philosopher and sociologist outlined the ideal-type of a discursive space between state and civil society, where people excluded from power found an arena for speaking, discussion and criticism. First shaped by British coffeehouses, literary salons and newspapers, the public sphere spread later to other countries (mainly France and Germany).In much the same way as the historical concept of the public sphere itself, so too has the historiographical one had a broad European fate, as the translations of the very title word Öffentlichkeit testify: public sphere, opinione pubblica, espace public, opinion y vida pública. As Rospocher rightly points out in the introduction, historical contexts where Habermasian work was read are decisive. Two turning points can be identified: on the one hand the protest of the student movements of the ‘60s and ’70s, with their emphasis on the self-determination of the various political galaxies they were composed by. On the other, the fall of the Communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the complex desire for political freedom it aroused (the same could be said today for the “Arab Spring”). Despite or maybe just because of this success, the notion of the public sphere has encountered many, sometimes very harsh, opponents.