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Coffeehouses [ Institutions / Food & Drink venues ]

… > Institutions Places > Food & Drink venues Keywords Coffee Coffeehouse Public sphere Club Addison Johnson Boswell Habermas Macaulay Tavern Coffeehouses were key centres of sociability in eighteenth-century Britain. They played an … would ultimately come to be known as liberal democracy. This view would be reinforced over a century later in Jürgen Habermas’s famous thesis on The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1962; Eng. Trans. 1989). Here, Habermas presented the coffeehouse as an exemplar of the newly emergent bourgeois public sphere in which rational …

Public opinion (journalism and communication) [ Social interaction / Communication ]

… in the twentieth century. As some of the most significant scholars of cultural processes point out (such as Innis, Habermas, McLuhan, Williams), the construction of popular public opinion is one of the most significant characteristics … is so very bad, and yet so very dear in England’ (Innis 143). Locke paid much attention to the quality of opinions, as Habermas pointed out: Locke ‘could therefore present the Law of Opinion as a category of equal rank beside divine and … in the later editions of his Essay Concerning Human Understanding , he stubbornly defended this position'. 4 4 . Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, trans. Thomas Burger (Cambridge: Polity, 1991), p. 91. The …

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 …

Jacques Necker (and public opinion) [ Politics / Publicity ]

… historiography, interest in the public sphere and public opinion took leave from the re-discovery of Jürgen Habermas’ essay, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, in the late-1980s. See Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, trans. …

West End of London [ Cities / Institutions ]

… shaped the public sphere through sites of discussion, encounter and the dissemination of print culture. 1 1 . Jurgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (Cambridge, …

Inns [ Residences & Lodgings ]

… auctions, were involved in sporting events, and were central to local election campaigns. They were part of the emerging Habermasian public sphere and essential to communication in urban and rural communities. 7 Like coffee-houses, they … be found in Frederick W. Hackwood, Inns, Ales, and Drinking Customs of Old England (London: Unwin, 1909). 7 . Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, trans. …