| Introduction
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| Author's Preface
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| I | Introduction: Preliminary Demarcation of a Type of Bourgeois Public Sphere | |
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| 1 | The Initial Questions
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| 2 | Remarks on the Type of Representative Publicness | 5 |
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| 3 | On the Genesis of the Bourgeois Public Sphere
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| II | Social Structures of the Public Sphere | |
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| 4 | The Basic Blueprint | 27 |
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| 5 | Institutions of the Public Sphere | 31 |
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| 6 | The Bourgeois Family and the Institutionalization of a Privateness Oriented to an Audience | 43 |
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| 7 | The Public Sphere in the World of Letters in Relation to the Public Sphere in the Political Realm | 51 |
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| III | Political Functions of the Public Sphere | |
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| 8 | The Model Case of British Development | 57 |
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| 9 | The Continental Variants | 67 |
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| 10 | Civil Society as the Sphere of Private Autonomy: Private Law and a Liberalized Market | 73 |
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| 11 | The Contradictory Institutionalization of the Public Sphere in the Bourgeois Constitutional State | 79 |
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| IV | The Bourgeois Public Sphere: Idea and Ideology | |
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| 12 | Public Opinion--Opinion Publique--Offentliche Meinung: On the Prehistory of the Phrase | 89 |
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| 13 | Publicity as the Bridging Principle between Politics and Morality (Kant) | 102 |
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| 14 | On the Dialectic of the Public Sphere (Hegel and Marx) | 117 |
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| 15 | The Ambivalent View of the Public Sphere in the Theory of Liberalism (John Stuart Mill and tIle Theory of Liberalism (John Stuart Mill and Alex de Tocqueville) | 129 |
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| V | The Social-Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere | |
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| 16 | The Tendency toward a Mutual Infiltration of Public and Private Spheres | 141 |
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| 17 | The Polarization of the Social Sphere and the Intimate Sphere | 151 |
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| 18 | From a Culture-Debating (kulturräsonierend) Public to a Culture-Consuming Public | 159 |
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| 19 | The Blurred Blueprint: Developmental Pathways in the Disintegration of the Bourgeois Public Sphere | 175 |
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| VI | The Transformation of the Public Sphere's Political Function | |
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| 20 | From the Journalism of Private Men of Letters to the Public Consumer Services of the Mass Media: The Public Sphere as a Platform for Advertising | 181 |
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| 21 | The Transmuted Function of the Principle of Publicity | 196 |
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| 22 | Manufactured Publicity and Nonpublic Opinion: The Voting Behavior of the Population | 211 |
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| 23 | The Political Public Sphere and the Transformation of the Liberal Constitutional State into a Social-Welfare State | 222 |
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| VII | On the Concept of Public Opinion | |
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| 24 | Public Opinion as a Fiction of Constitutional Law--and the Social-Psychological Liquidation of the Concept | 236 |
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| 25 | A Sociological Attempt at Clarification | 244 |
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| Notes | 251 |
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| Index
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