Nancy Fraser 
Transnationalizing the Public Sphere [EPUB ebook] 

Is Habermas’s concept of the public sphere still relevant in
an age of globalization, when the transnational flows of people and
information have become increasingly intensive and when the
nation-state can no longer be taken granted as the natural frame
for social and political debate? This is the question posed with
characteristic acuity by Nancy Fraser in her influential article
‘Transnationalizing the Public Sphere?’ Challenging
careless uses of the term ‘global public sphere’,
Fraser raises the debate about the nature and role of the public
sphere in a global age to a new level. While drawing on the
richness of Habermas’s conception and remaining faithful to
the spirit of critical theory, Fraser thoroughly reconstructs the
concepts of inclusion, legitimacy and efficacy for our globalizing
times.

This book includes Fraser’s original article as well as
specially commissioned contributions that raise searching questions
about the theoretical assumptions and empirical grounds of
Fraser’s argument. They are concerned with the fundamental
premises of Habermas’s development of the concept of the
public sphere as a normative ideal in complex societies; the
significance of the fact that the public sphere emerged in modern
states that were also imperial; whether ‘scaling up’ to
a global public sphere means giving up on local and national
publics; the role of ‘counterpublics’ in developing
alternative globalization; and what inclusion might possibly mean
for a global public. Fraser responds to these questions in detail
in an extended reply to her critics.

An invaluable resource for students and scholars concerned with the
role of the public sphere beyond the nation-state, this book will
also be welcomed by anyone interested in globalization and
democracy today.

İçerik tablosu

Contributors

Introduction

1. Nancy Fraser – Transnationalizing the Public Sphere: on the
Legitimacy and Efficacy of Public Opinion in a Post-Westphalian
World

2. Kate Nash – Towards Transnational Democratization?

3. Kimberley Hutchings – Time, Politics and Critique: rethinking
the ‘when’ question

4. Nick Couldry – What and Where is the Transnationalized Public
Sphere?

5. Fuyuki Kurasawa – Putting the Social Back into the Transnational
Public Sphere

6. David Owen – Dilemmas of Inclusion: the all-affected principle,
the all-subjected principle and transnational public spheres

7. Nancy Fraser – Publicity, Subjection, Critique: A Reply to My
Critics

Yazar hakkında

Nancy Fraser is Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and Department Chair at the New School for Social Research.

Kate Nash is Joint Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a Fellow of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University.