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Book SynopsisIs Habermas's concept of the public sphere still relevant in an age of globalization, when the...
Trade Review"For all those interested in the difficult but urgent question of how to decouple the public sphere from its national limitations, the critical debate represented in this book is by far the best starting-point. Anyone who reads the whole debate will undergo a true learning process - a judgement that can be made about very few books!"
Axel Honneth, Columbia University, New York, and Goethe University, Frankfurt
“Transnationalizing the Public Sphere is a central reading for students and scholars in the fields of media and social movements.”
LSE Review of Books
"Nancy Fraser has long been one of the most original voices in interdisciplinary social and political theory. Here she brings new perspectives to the basic question of whether democracy and public engagement can be effective beyond the increasingly problematic containers of nation-states."
Craig Calhoun, London School of Economics and Political Science
Table of ContentsContributors
Introduction
1. Nancy Fraser - Transnationalizing the Public Sphere: on the Legitimacy and Efficacy of Public Opinion in a Post-Westphalian World
2. Kate Nash - Towards Transnational Democratization?
3. Kimberley Hutchings - Time, Politics and Critique: rethinking the ‘when’ question
4. Nick Couldry - What and Where is the Transnationalized Public Sphere?
5. Fuyuki Kurasawa - Putting the Social Back into the Transnational Public Sphere
6. David Owen - Dilemmas of Inclusion: the all-affected principle, the all-subjected principle and transnational public spheres
7. Nancy Fraser - Publicity, Subjection, Critique: A Reply to My Critics
