Introduction: Changing Perceptions of the
Public Sphere
Christian J. Emden and David Midgley
Part I: Publics Before the Public Sphere
Chapter 1. A Public Sphere before Kant?
Habermas and the Historians of Early Modern Germany
Joachim Whaley
Chapter 2. Kunigunde of Bavaria and the
“Conquest of Regensburg”: Politics, Gender, and the Public Sphere
in 1489
Sarah Westphal
Chapter 3. Publishing the Private in Early
Modern Europe: The Rise of Secret History
Peter Burke
Part II: Thinking about Enlightenment Publics
Chapter 4. Private, Public, and Structural
Change: The German Problem
Nicholas Boyle
Chapter 5. The Second Life of the “Public
Sphere”: On Charisma and Routinization in the History of a
Concept
John H. Zammito
Part III: Cultural Politics and Literary Publics
Chapter 6. Probing the Limits: The Contribution
of Literary Writing to Defining the Public Sphere
David Midgley
Chapter 7. Habermas Anticipated: The
Eighteenth-Century Public Sphere as “Theatre of the World” in
Edward Lytton Bulwer’s Devereux (1829) and Karl Gutzkow’s Richard
Savage (1839)
Martina Lauster
Chapter 8. Karl Kraus and the Transformation of
the Public Sphere in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna
Edward Timms
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
Christian J. Emden is Associate Professor of German Intellectual History and Political Thought at Rice University.
“The eight well-edited essays selected by Christian J. Emden and David Midgley create a good balance between critical and consenting perspectives on Juergen Habermas’ idea of the public sphere… this anthology is not only complementary to Habermas’ model (by taking, for instance, earlier developments into consideration, as Habermas did) but also expands on it, by discussing his work in the light of the critiques that have been levied against it. As a result, this very interesting volume pays respect to the merits of his model, but also to the need to remodel it.” · European Review of History/Revue Europèenne d'Histoire "An impressive collection of essays with contributions from a stellar cast, including leading authorities from a variety of disciplines, notably cultural, intellectual and literary history... nicely balanced, [the volume] does justice to the richness and complexity of Habermas’s ideas and offers fresh perspectives on its heuristic uses.” · Martin A. Ruehl, Cambridge University
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