Culture and the Public Sphere
Author: Jim McGuigan
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0415112621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere
Author: Gerard Delanty
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-04-27
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1136738576
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFestivals and the Cultural Public Sphere provides the first major social scientific study of these festivals in the wake of their explosion in popularity over the past decade. It explores the cultural significance of contemporary arts festivals from their location within the cultural public sphere, examining them as sites for contestation and democratic debate, and also identifying them as examples of a particular aesthetic cosmopolitanism. The book approaches contemporary festivals as relatively autonomous social texts that need interpretation and contextualisation. This perspective, combined with a diversified set of theoretical approaches and research methods, and guided by a common thematic rationale, places the volume squarely within some of the most debated topics in current social sciences. Furthermore, the multifaceted nature of festivals allows for unusual but useful connections to be made across several fields of social inquiry. This timely edited collection brings together contributions from key figures across the social sciences, and proves to be valuable reading for undergraduate students, postgraduates, and professionals working within the areas of contemporary social theory, cultural theory, and visual culture.
Architecture, Print Culture and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France
Author: Richard Wittman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0429565917
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on the complex ways in which architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass public and a reconfigured public sphere between the end of the seventeenth century and the French Revolution. Presenting a fresh theoretical orientation and a large body of new primary research, this book offers a new cultural history of virtually all the major monuments of eighteenth-century Parisian architecture, with detailed analyses of the public debates that erupted around such Parisian monuments as the east facade of the Louvre, the Place Louis XV [the Place de la Concorde], and the church of Sainte-Genevieve [the Pantheon]. Depicting the passage of architecture into a mediatized public culture as a turning point, and interrogating it as a symptom of the distinctly modern configuration of individual, society, and space that emerged during this period, this study will interest readers well beyond the discipline of architectural history.
The Institution of Criticism
Author: Peter Uwe Hohendahl
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2016-11-01
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 1501705423
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGerman radicals of the 1960s announced the death of literature. For them, literature both past and present, as well as conventional discussions of literary issues, had lost its meaning. In The Institution of Criticism, Peter Uwe Hohendahl explores the implications of this crisis from a Marxist perspective and attempts to define the tasks and responsibilities of criticism in advanced capitalist societies. Hohendahl takes a close look at the social history of literary criticism in Germany since the eighteenth century. Drawing on the tradition of the Frankfurt School and on Jürgen Habermas's concept of the public sphere, Hohendahl sheds light on some of the important political and social forces that shape literature and culture. The Institution of Criticism is made up of seven essays originally published in German and a long theoretical introduction written by the author with English-language readers in mind. This book conveys the rich possibilities of the German perspective for those who employ American and French critical techniques and for students of contemporary critical theory.
Origins of Democratic Culture
Author: David Zaret
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-12-08
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 0691222592
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis innovative work of historical sociology locates the origins of modern democratic discourse in the emergent culture of printing in early modern England. For David Zaret, the key to the rise of a democratic public sphere was the impact of this culture of printing on the secrecy and privilege that shrouded political decisions in seventeenth-century England. Zaret explores the unanticipated liberating effects of printing and printed communication in transforming the world of political secrecy into a culture of open discourse and eventually a politics of public opinion. Contrary to those who locate the origins of the public sphere in the philosophical tracts of the French Enlightenment, Zaret claims that it originated as a practical accomplishment, propelled by economic and technical aspects of printing--in particular heightened commercialism and increased capacity to produce texts. Zaret writes that this accomplishment gained impetus when competing elites--Royalists and Parliamentarians, Presbyterians and Independents--used printed material to reach the masses, whose leaders in turn invoked the authority of public opinion to lobby those elites. Zaret further shows how the earlier traditions of communication in England, from ballads and broadsides to inn and alehouse conversation, merged with the new culture of print to upset prevailing norms of secrecy and privilege. He points as well to the paradox for today's critics, who attribute the impoverishment of the public sphere to the very technological and economic forces that brought about the means of democratic discourse in the first place.
Changing Perceptions of the Public Sphere
Author: Christian J. Emden
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2012-07-20
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 0857455001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBritish and US scholars of German literature and culture assess the nature of public communications and the molding of public opinion in historical situations ranging from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century. In particular they look at the representation of the public sphere in literary writing a half century after the German original of Jürgen Habermas' The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere was published. Their overall themes are publics before the public sphere, thinking about Enlightenment publics, and cultural politics and literary publics. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Popular Culture and the Public Sphere in the Rhineland, 1800-1850
Author: James M. Brophy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-08-09
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 0521847699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of the politicisation of 'ordinary people' in western Germany in the 1850s.
Scripted Culture
Author: Ruedi Widmer
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9783035801156
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen we look at the cultural public sphere through the lens of digitalization, a paradoxical picture emerges: the cultural public sphere is simultaneously exploding and imploding; the most essential objectives of the Enlightenment have been attained and yet are in danger; platforms and algorithms are vehicles both for self-determination and for heteronomy. Long-standing values from the Enlightenment values and new realities, the citizen and the consumer, rational systems of humans and machines alike are separate and yet at the same time inextricable from each other in this picture.
Media and Public Spheres
Author: R. Butsch
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-01-05
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 0230206352
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing examples from the US, Europe and Asia,this collection presentsempirical studies of print, recorded music, movies, radio, television and the Internetto reveal both how media structure public spheresand how people use media to participate in the public sphere.
The Idea of the Public Sphere
Author: Jostein Gripsrud
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2010-10-21
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 0739141996
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe notion of 'the public sphere' has become increasingly central to theories and studies of democracy, media, and culture over the last few decades. It has also gained political importance in the context of the European Union's efforts to strengthen democracy, integration, and identity. The Idea of the Public Sphere offers a wide-ranging, accessible, and easy-to-use introduction to one of the most influential ideas in modern social and political thought, tracing its development from the origins of modern democracy in the Eighteenth Century to present day debates. This book brings key texts by the leading contributors in the field together in a single volume. It explores current topics such as the role of religion in public affairs, the implications of the internet for organizing public deliberation, and the transnationalisation of public issues.
