The Public Sphere

Anders Molander is a professor at the Centre for the Study of Professions, Oslo Metropolitan University.

VOLUME 1: DISCOVERING THE PUBLIC SPHERE
Part 1: Inventing the Public Sphere
Speech to the Electors of Bristol - Edmund Burke
An Answer to the Question: ′What Is Enlightenment?′ - Immanuel Kant
On Public Opinion - Alexander Hamilton
On Public Opinion - Jacques Peuchet
Excerpt from Critique of the Power of Judgment - Immanuel Kant
Public Opinion - James Madison
Excerpt from Toward Perpetual Peace - Immanuel Kant
Excerpt from The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns - Benjamin Constant
Excerpt from Elements of the Philosophy of Right - W.F. Hegel
Excerpt from On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
Part 2: ′Mass Society′, Democracy and Public Opinion
Excerpt from Critique of Public Opinion - Ferdinand Tönnies
The Principles of Parliamentarism - Carl Schmitt
Excerpts from The Phantom Public - Walter Lippmann
Excerpt from The Public and Its Problems - John Dewey
Excerpt from Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy - Joseph A. Schumpeter
Part 3: The Rediscovery of the Public Sphere
The Public and the Private Realm - Hannah Arendt
On Judgment and Politics - Hannah Arendt
The Publice Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article - J rgen Habermas
The Scientization of Politics and Public Opinion - J rgen Habermas
Introduction to Public Sphere and Experience - Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge
The End of Public Culture - Richard Sennett
Part 4: Debating the Public Sphere
The Blurring of Public and Private Behaviours - Joshua Meyrowitz
Societal Complexity and Public Opinion - Niklas Luhmann
Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy - Nancy Fraser
Further Reflections on the Public Sphere - J rgen Habermas
The Public and the Private Sphere: A Feminist Reconsideration - Joan B. Landes
Public Intimacies, Private Citizens: Inequalities and the Pluralization of Public Spheres - Ken Plummer
VOLUME 2: THE POLITICAL PUBLIC SPHERE
Part 1: The Public Sphere and Deliberative Democracy
On Legitimacy and Political Deliberation - Bernard Manin
Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy - Joshua Cohen
Civil Society, Public Opinion, and Communicative Power - J rgen Habermas
Three Normative Models of Democracy - J rgen Habermas
The Sense of Reciprocity - Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson
The Idea of Public Reason Revisited - John Rawls
Deliberative Democracy or Agonistic Pluralism? - Chantal Mouffe
Is the Ideal of a Deliberative Democracy Coherent? - Cristina Lafont
Part 2: The Political Public Sphere at Work: Public Opinion
The Nature of Personal Influence - Paul Lazarsfeld, Bernard Berelson and Hazel Gaudet
Democratic Theory and Public Opinion - Bernard Berelson
Opinion Research and Publicness - Theodor W. Adorno
The Agenda-Setting Function of Mass Media - Maxwell E. McCombs and Donald L. Shaw
The Spiral of Silence: A Theory of Public Opinion - Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann
Public Opinion Does Not Exist - Pierre Bourdieu
Part 3: The Political Public Sphere at Work: Deliberation
Against Deliberation - Lynn M. Sanders
Deliberation as Discussion - James D. Fearon
Good Citizens and Bad History: Today′s Political Ideals in Historical Perspective - Michael Schudson
Measuring Publicity′s Effect: Reconciling Empirical Research and Normative Theory - Simone Chambers
Political Communication in Media Society: Does Democracy Still Enjoy an Epistemic Dimension? The Impact of Normative Theory on Empirical Research - J rgen Habermas
The Surprising Failures of Deliberating Groups - Cass R. Sunstein
Disaggregating Deliberation′s Effects: An Experiment within a Deliberative Poll - Cynthia Farrar et al
VOLUME 3: THE CULTURAL PUBLIC SPHERE
Part 1: Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics
Discourses and Institutions
The Dialectic of the Aesthetic Power of Judgment - Immanuel Kant
Letter to M. d′Alembert on the Theatre - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Theater Considered as a Moral Institution - Friedrich Schiller
Institutions of the Public Sphere - J rgen Habermas
Society - Theodor W. Adorno
Aesthetic Experience and Political Impact
On the Social Function of Literature - Hans Robert Jauss
Tales of Sound and Fury: Observations on the Family Melodrama - Thomas Elsaesser
History as Entertainment and Provocation: The TV Series ′Holocaust′ in West Germany - Siegfried Zielinski
On Theatre - Bertolt Brecht
On Uncle Tom′s Cabin - Henry Louis Gates Jr and Hollis Robbins
Part 2: Publics and Markets
Publics and Readers
The Bourgeois Family and the Institutionalization of a Privateness Oriented to an Audience - J rgen Habermas
The Reading Public and the Rise of the Novel - Ian Watt
Early Cinema: Whose Public Sphere? - Miriam Hansen
Perspectives on Media and the Modern Public
Culture Industry Reconsidered - Theodor W. Adorno
Free Time - Theodor W. Adorno
Human Interest Stories and Democracy - Helen MacGill Hughes
Celebrity Culture and Public Connection: Bridge or Chasm? - Nick Couldry and Tim Markham
Public Service Broadcasting and Modern Public Life - Paddy Scannell
The Cultural Public Sphere - Jim McGuigan
Beyond the Semantic ′Big Bang′: Cultural Sociology and an Aesthetic Public Sphere - Paul Jones
Section 3: Identity, Identification and Imagination
The Origins of National Consciousness - Benedict Anderson
Suppose James Brown Read Fanon: The Black Arts Movement, Cultural Nationalism and the Failure of Popular Musical Praxis - Michael Hanson
This Book Changes Lives: The ′Consciousness-Raising Novel′ and Its Legacy - Imelda Whelehan and Maroula Joannou
Taking Sides - Luc Boltanski
The Discourse of Global Compassion: The Audience and Media Reporting of Human Suffering - Birgitta Höijer
Part 4: Cultural Policy and the Public Sphere
Can a Liberal State Support Art? - Ronald Dworkin
The Media and the Public Sphere - Nicholas Garnham
Learning from Experience: Cultural Policies and Cultural Democracy in the 20th Century - Jostein Gripsrud
Building the Digital Commons: Public Broadcasting in the Age of the Internet - Graham Murdock
VOLUME 4: THE FUTURE OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE
Part 1: The Internet as a Public Sphere
Cyberdemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere - Mark Poster
Democracy Online: Civility, Politeness, and the Democratic Potential of Online Political Discussion Groups - Zizi Papacharissi
Dismantling the Digital Divide: Rethinking the Dynamics of Participation and Exclusion - Graham Murdock and Peter Golding
The Internet, Public Spheres, and Political Communication: Dispersion and Deliberation - Peter Dahlgren
Whose Voice Is Heard in Online Deliberation? A Study of Participation and Representation in Political Debates on the Internet - Steffen Albrecht
Part 2: Fragmentation and Segmentation - Todd Gitlin
Public Sphere or Public Sphericules?
Publicity - John Keane
Against the Tide? Small Groups, Social Movements, and the Net - Robert D. Putnam
On Power Law Distributions, Network Topology, and Being Heard - Yochai Benkler
Neither Hayek nor Habermas - Cass R. Sunstein
Part 3: Difference and Deliberation
Difference as a Resource for Democratic Communication - Iris Marion Young
Deliberative Democracy, Self-determination, and Multiculturalism - Seyla Benhabib
Religion in the Public Sphere - J rgen Habermas
Part 4: Transnational Public Spheres
National and Transnational Public Spheres - Bernhard Peters
Expanding Dialogue: The Internet, the Public Sphere and Prospects for Transnational Democracy - James Bohman
Beyond Migration: Islam as a Transnational Public Space - John R. Bowen
Television and the European Public Sphere - Jostein Gripsrud
Transnationalizing the Public Sphere: On the Legitimacy and Efficacy of Public Opinion in a Post-Westphalian World - Nancy Fraser
Global 24/7 News Providers: Emissaries of Global Dominance or Global Public Sphere? - Simon Cottle and Mugdha Rai
The New Public Sphere: Global Civil Society, Communication Networks, and Global Governance - Manuel Castells
Uniting and Dividing: The European Public Sphere as an Unfinished Project - Hans-Jörg Trenz
Pressure on Press Freedom: The Current Religious War on Freedom of Expression - Frederik Stjernfelt