Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Referring to Habermas’ groundbreaking book ‘The structural transformation of the public sphere’, the article discusses contemporary transformations of higher education and science. In order to do so, in…
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. The first section of this chapter illustrates that the pogrom in Rostock-Lichtenhagen in 1992 has not been categorized sufficiently as a substantial milestone of right-wing violence in postwar Germany. …
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere is a key contribution to political philosophy, media history, democratic theory and political economy – published almost 60 years ago – that left a dee…
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Following a workshop on ‘Wildening the public sphere’ with Nancy Fraser at the Berlin Centre for Social Critique in June 2022, we had the chance to continue the discussion via Zoom in November 2022. We …
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. In our text, we follow the traces of a (1) paradox, (2) an ambivalence and (3) a dialectic that constitute digitalized public spheres and discuss the resulting tensions in discourse-ethical and politica…
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. The contemporary proliferation of “filter bubbles” and “echo chambers” seems to render obsolete the notion of a public sphere in the singular. In my article, I would like to argue against this view: Fol…
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. From a socio-theoretical and media-theoretical perspective, this article analyses exemplary practices and structural characteristics of contemporary digital political campaigning to illustrate a transfo…
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Democracy depends on a vivid public sphere, where ideas disseminate into the public and can be discussed – and challenged – by everyone. Journalism has contributed significantly to this social mediation…
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. The history of political philosophy is marked by a conception of politics as inherently tragic. As such, it has hardly ever been systematically contrasted with the other model of dramatic art, comedy. I…
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This paper argues that much of Jacques Rancière’s redefinition of emancipation owes a lot to one key character from his archival research on nineteenth-century worker-poets, Louis-Gabriel Gauny, the sel…