Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Excavations: the history of a concept -- The bourgeois public sphere -- The fall of the bourgeois public sphere -- Critical publicity and late capitalism -- Discursive testing: the public sphere and its critics -- Lessons from history -- Equality and emancipation -- Rationality and embodiment -- Reconfigurations: the public sphere since Structural Transformation -- Scientism and politics -- System, lifeworld and communicative action -- The politics of the other -- Mediations: from the coffee house to the Internet caf�e -- The fall of the agora -- A public sphere in bits? -- Unfinished projects: reflexive democracy -- Reflexive agency -- Risk and reflexivity -- Revisiting the public sphere.

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