Brief lines on the conceptual change of the public sphere in Habermas
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1983-4012.2019.2.31959Keywords:
public sphere. Habermas. Fraser. Democracy.Abstract
The purpose of this article is to present Nancy Fraser's criticism of the Habermasian concept of the public sphere. The republication of Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit, which occurred in 1990, brings a long note where Habermas recognizes the shortcomings of his formulation of the concept "public sphere", as elaborated in the first edition of the referred work, in view of the criticism received by authors such as Fraser. Therefore, this article will present the four central points of Fraser's critique and will point out future challenges to the Critical Theory itself in light of the reformulation and updating of the concept of "public sphere" in a scenario where the political system can already be further explained by a bourgeois model of the public sphere, which is exclusive and predominantly occupied by a small portion of the population.
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