Reading Habermas: Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere

Reading Habermas
	Dedication
	Contents
	List of Abbreviations
	Preface: The Social Media Transformation of the Public Sphere and the Crisis of Neoliberal Democracy
	Introduction: The Unique Significance of Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere for the Theory and Practice of Democratic Deliberation
	1 Structural Transformation’s Normative Theses about a Dissolution of Domination in the Bourgeois Public Sphere
	2 Habermas’s Dialectical Use of Ideology Critique to Counterfactually Assert a Moment of Historical Credibility for the Bourgeois Ideal of the Public Sphere
	3 Structural Transformation’s Cold War Origins: Habermas’s Defense of Kantian Rationality, Human Rights, and the Enlightenment
	4 Participatory Democracy versus Political Manipulation: The Role of Habermas’s “Celebrated Coffee Houses” (Todd Gitlin) in the Modern Public Sphere
	5 Understanding Habermas’s Public Sphere Concept by Dissolving Its Monolithic Stylization: Structural Transformation’s Interpretation of a Sociological and Political Category with the Norms of Constitutional Theory and Intellectual History
	6 Structural Transformation’s Tacit Model Case of the Bourgeois Public Sphere: The French Revolution, Kant’s “Unofficial” Philosophy of History, Condorcet’s Absolute Rationalism, and Schiller’s Expressive Subjectivism
	7 The Achilles’ Heel of Schiller’s Moral Stage and Structural Transformation’s Moral Politics: A Dependency of Smith’s Political Economy and Kant’s Constitutional Law on Mandeville’s Moral Paradox of Bourgeois Society
	8 Habermas’s Unexplained Methodology: A Complex “Ideology-Critical Procedure”
	9 The Result of Structural Transformation’s Dialectical Use of Schmitt’s “Civil War Topos” and Koselleck’s “Process of Criticism”: A Tension between Developmental History and Ideology-Critical Procedure
	Conclusion: Renewing the Human Rights Perspective in the Political Public Sphere
	Bibliography
	Index
	About the Author