MDSC01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Civil Society, Unpaid Work, Linkedin
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Jurgen habermas the public sphere: an encyclopedia article (1964) He argues that the rise of the bourgeois reading class was the vehicle for public discourse; An increasing distinction between the private sphere and the public sphere; In the intimate sphere of the conjugal family privatized individuals viewed themselves as independent even from the private sphere of their economic activity as persons capable of entering into purely human" relations with one another. The literary form of this at the time was the letter (48). The intermediary sector between these levels included public sphere in the political realm, the. Tischgesellschaften press, the literary salons, the houses the last two venues were very significant in the development of the public sphere. Notwithstanding some functional differences between them, both tischgesellschaften and coffee houses had a number of common features. (table societies, dinner parties) and the coffee.
