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Murphy, Thomas Francis, III.

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Democratic desire: The 'prehistory' of the public sphere (England, Juergen Habermas).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Democratic desire: The 'prehistory' of the public sphere (England, Juergen Habermas)./
Author:	Murphy, Thomas Francis, III.
Description:	251 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Sankar Muthu.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-09A.
Subject:	History, European. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3027095
ISBN:	0493386858

Democratic desire: The 'prehistory' of the public sphere (England, Juergen Habermas).
Murphy, Thomas Francis, III.

Democratic desire: The 'prehistory' of the public sphere (England, Juergen Habermas). - 251 p.

Adviser: Sankar Muthu.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New School for Social Research, 2001.

This dissertation studies the implications of the medieval transition to literacy for religious and national communities of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England, yielding evidence that challenges the assumptions that underlie the Habermasian model of public sphere. This has important implications for democratic theory generally and current theories of deliberative democracy in particular.

ISBN: 0493386858Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018076
History, European.

Democratic desire: The 'prehistory' of the public sphere (England, Juergen Habermas).
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520 $a This dissertation begins by critically re-assessing the Habermasian model of the public sphere first put forward in <italic>Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit </italic> in order to provide an analytical framework for the remainder of the study. This framework guides the review of recent historiographic evidence concerning the medieval transition to literacy, which provides an alternative basis of historic facts on which to describe and analyze the origins of the public sphere.
520 $a The dissertation then investigates in detail the origins of the public sphere in the development of two actual communities in late medieval England: the English national community and the Lollard community. These case studies provide evidence for the following conclusions: the structure of the public sphere resembles a network, the subjectivity fostered reflects new group identities, and the dominant modality is mediated communication.
520 $a The dissertation concludes by drawing implications for both the public sphere and democratic theory. One conclusion is that the public sphere has always been <italic>intrinsically</italic> hierarchical (both in terms of production—authors/publishers/readers—and in terms of fostering particular group identities). Also, the public sphere is normatively more resilient than depicted by the Habermasian model since mediated communication fosters freedom of thought and conscience by separating the ‘consumption’ of communication from its ‘production.’ In short its normative strength rests not in face-to-face but rather mediated communication. The dominance of the mediated mode of communication lies at the heart of modern conceptions of democracy. Theorizing the reform of current democratic practices requires a firmer grasp of the historical development of communications, opinion and group formation than hitherto evidenced within theories of deliberative democracy.
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