The bourgeois public sphere may be conceived above all as the sphere of private people come together as a public; they soon claimed the public sphere… - Jürgen Habermas

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The bourgeois public sphere may be conceived above all as the sphere of private people come together as a public; they soon claimed the public sphere regulated from above against the public authorities themselves, to engage them in a debate over the general rules governing relations in the basically privatized but publicly relevant sphere of commodity exchange and social labor.

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About Jürgen Habermas

Jürgen Habermas (born June 18, 1929) is a German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and American pragmatism. He is best known for his work on the concept of the public sphere, which he has based in his theory of communicative action.

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Alternative Names: Jurgen Habermas Habermas Habermas, Jürgen
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