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Aug 28, 1991 | ISBN 9780262581080 Buy
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Aug 28, 1991 | ISBN 9780262581080
This is Jürgen Habermas’s most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the postwar period. It will be a revelation to those who have known Habermas only through his theoretical writing to find his later interests in problems of legitimation and communication foreshadowed in this lucid study of the origins, nature, and evolution of public opinion in democratic societies.
The most significant modern work on its subject…Habermas offers perhaps the richest, best developed conceptualization available of the social nature and foundations of public life. As scholars set out to make sense of the growing wealth of empirical research on the topics related to this theme, this book will form an indispensable point of theoretical departure…We should be grateful that it has finally appeared in English.—Craig J. Calhoun, Contemporary Sociology—
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