Street sociability [ Cities ]
… encounters that sit awkwardly at the intersection of several historiographical perspectives. In the work of Jürgen Habermas, the streets are largely absent. They sit beyond the walls of the coffeehouses and salons, where the newspapers were read and discussed by groups of self-selecting and socially uniform characters. For Habermas, this is where the real work of sociability and its ‘authentic public sphere’ took place. Indeed, he explicitly … it allowed contemporaries to view their streets as sites of constant encounter and constant challenge. 9 1 . Jürgen Habermas and Thomas Burger (translator), The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category …
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