From: "Thomas Murphy" <tfmiii-AT-worldnet.att.net>
Subject: HAB: Re: Habermas and the Public Sphere
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 12:07:07 -0700


If you are looking for some critical treatments of the public sphere I found
the following are useful. The historical pieces may actually surprise you
with the parallels between the concerns about the internet and prior
concerns regarding pamphlets and printing.

Cheers - Tom Murphy
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Halasz, Alexandra. 1997. The Marketplace of Print: Pamphlets and the Public
Sphere in Early Modern England. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Peters, John Durham. 1993. "Distrust of Representation: Habermas on the
Public Sphere." Media, Culture and Society. 15:4. 541-571.

Robbins, Bruce, Ed. 1993. The Phantom Public Sphere. (Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press).

Saccamano, Neil. 1991. "The Consolations of Ambivalence: Habermas and the
Public Sphere." MLN. 106:3. 685-698.

Zaret, David. 1992. "Religion, Science, and Printing in the Public Spheres
of Seventeenth-Century England." in Habermas and the Public Sphere. Ed.
Craig Calhoun. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press). 212-235.

Zaret, David. 2000. Origins of Democratic Culture: Printing, Petitions, and
the Public Sphere in Early-Modern England. (Princeton: Princeton University
Press).

----- Original Message -----
From: Adam Elston <adamelston-AT-hotmail.com>
To: <habermas-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 5:36 AM


> I have very little experience using the internet and don't even know where
> this message will be sent.
>
> However, I am about to start researching for a dissertation exploring the
> idea of the internet as a public sphere, based on Habermas's ideas of
> communicative action etc, ideas of which I am sure you are all aware.  I
> like the fact that computer technology and the internet, while examples
par
> excellance of 'system' contain within them the inherent possibility of
> communication leading to concerted communicative action directed towards
> maintenance/improvement of the lifeworld.  The idea of appropriating the
> advances of system colonisation and turning them against further
encroaching
> system imperatives.
>
> I am writing to ask if anyone has any suggestions or can recommend any
> recent material that may be of use to me in this project.
>
> I am a great fan of Habermas's ideas and cannot really understand why they
> are not more well-known. I would like to do my bit, however small, in
> 'spreading the word'.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Adam Elston
>
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