Radical Thinkers
Public Sphere and Experience: Analysis of the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere
Alexander Kluge, Oskar Negt, Miriam Hansen
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Product Details
- Format:
- Paperback / softback
- ISBN:
- 9781784782412
- Published:
- 02 Feb 2016
- Publisher:
- Verso Books
- Dimensions:
- 350 pages - 198 x 129 x 26mm
- Availability:
- Available
- Series:
- Radical Thinkers
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The "public sphere" is a key concept in political discourse, designating a space for political action. But is this a single authoritative and universal space in which various positions compete for recognition, or does it consist of multiple local spaces spread over diverse collectivities? In Kluge and Negt's groundbreaking book they examine the material conditions of experience in an arena that had previously figured only as an abstract term: the media of mass and consumer culture. With new, up-to-date introduction from Alexander Kluge.
A classic critique of Habermas' renowned notion of the public sphere.
Oskar Negt is an award-winning filmmaker, a TV producer, theorist and editor, and owner of the Development Company for Television Production and Cairos Film Company. A student of Theodor Adorno and assistant to Jürgen Habermas, he is now Professor of Sociology at the University of Hannover. Alexander Kluge is one of the major German fiction writers of the late-20th century as well as film-maker, director, screenwriter and an important social critic. A contemporary of Theodor Adorno, he has won almost every German literary award, including the triennial Adorno prize in 2009.