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… 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 discourse and unhindered debate was encouraged. The Habermasian model has remained influential, but it has been subjected to revisionist criticism in the twenty-first …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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. …

… 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, …

… 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. …

… du Bac, and then at the Château de Coppet. 15 The salons soared to prominence amongst scholarly debates following Jürgen Habermas’ influential work The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere , which highlighted the importance of … d’intellectuels européens, (Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2005). 16 . Jürgen Habermas, The Structural transformation of the public sphere: an inquiry into a category of bourgeois society (Cambridge: …

… fostered discussions about the colonial trade, the exotic, the domestication, the living conditions of animals, since as Habermas explains, ‘anyone has the right to judge’. 9 At Pidcock’s Menagerie on the Strand children could ride elephants … announced that he was now on his road to London to devote himself to the menagerie at the Exeter Change. 9 . Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, trans. …

… fostering dialogue and human relationships without the restrictions of family, society and the state. According to Habermas, the coffeehouse represents a medium for the formation of bourgeois public opinion. 11  The shared practice of … Life of Coffee. The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008). 11 . Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1991). Share Partager sur …