Excerpts from Habermas

The "public sphere" historical overview.

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Excerpts from Habermas: "Jurgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere

Quotations assembled by Laura Mandell

Definitions:

Representative Publicity:

I. In Feudal society--

The 'publicness (or publicity) of representation was not constituted as a social realm, that is, as a public sphere; rather, it was something like a status attribute. . . . [T]he manorial lord . . . . displayed himself, presented himself as an embodiment of some `higher' power. . . . Representation in the sense in which the members of a national assembly represent a nation or a lawyer represents his clients had nothing to do with this publicity of representation inseparable from the lord's concrete existence, that, as an `aura,' surrounded and endowed his authority' (7)."

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