Public Sphere and Experience
Analysis of the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere
by Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt ; foreword Miriam Hansen

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Editor(s)

Alexander Kluge, Oskar Negt

Publication, year

London ; New York : Verso, 2016 [Suhrkamp 1972]

Scope

352 Pages, 20 cm.

ISBN

9781784782412

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The “public sphere” is a key concept in political discourse, designating a space for political action. But is this a single authoritative and universal space in which various positions compete for recognition, or does it consist of multiple local spaces spread over diverse collectivities? Kluge and Negt examine the material conditions of experience in an arena that had previously figured only as an abstract term: the media of mass and consumer culture. Originally published in German under the title ‘Öffentlichtkeit und Erfahrung’. With a new, up-to-date introduction from Alexander Kluge.

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Location

Cabinet 28 - 2: Kunst in de openbare ruimte ; theorie

Remarks

Incl. Index, notes