CS203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ideal Speech Situation, Jürgen Habermas, Liberal Democracy
16 Oct 2011
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The public sphere the critical theory of jurgen habermas. The public sphere is an area in social life where people can get together and freely discuss and identify societal problems, and, through that discussion, influence political action. The place where we can see how it is we have come to naturalize democracy is in the history of the public sphere. We must situate historically the origins of some of the basic assumptions we make about ourselves and our political system. The shifts in the ways in which we organize ourselves economically includes a move away from feudalism toward an economic system that is more democratized. The middle class start to become franchised and have concerns about the way things are organized they are both limited and educated, intent on educating themselves about the issues of the day. The public sphere emerges when private people come together to form a public; through talking, debating, demanding access to information (publicity)
