Public Sphere and its Political Functions in Habermas' View

LIU Bing SHANG Jun (Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Sciences of Shandong, Jinan 250100, P.R.China; School of Philosophy & Social Development, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, P.R.China)  

The ideal public sphere for Habermas is "bourgeois public sphere", or a liberal public. In The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1961), Habermas analyzes in detail the process of bourgeois public sphere gaining political functions, and discusses its practical significance: (1) instead of using violence, we can solve political problems through reason, and achieve rationalization of political and economical activities through the rationalization of communication; (2) it endows self-regulatory mechanism of civil society with regularized status, and realizes a kind of state power adapting to civil society through publicity.

【Key Words】： Habermas civil society public sphere political functions the rationalization of communication publicity
【CateGory Index】： B089

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