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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Gilman-Opalsky, Richard, 1973- Unbounded publics. Lanham : Lexington Books, c2008 (OCoLC)608488403 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Gilman-Opalsky |
| ISBN: | 9780739124789 0739124781 9780739124796 073912479X |
| OCLC Number: | 181072561 |
| Description: | xviii, 362 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Basic concepts and terms : Political public spheres and communicative power -- A prefigured national framework : legitimation and the public sphere. Habermas' classical theory in light of nonbourgeois public spheres. "Globalization" : a new topography for the public sphere? -- Transnational cosmopolitan public spheres and a turn against the national framework --Beyond the national/transnational dichotomy : moving toward a theory of transgressive public spheres -- A different kind of public sphere : the Zapatistas' transgressive public sphere -- Indigenous identity and the recasting of subject positions -- The case for transgressive public spheres. |
| Responsibility: | Richard Gilman-Opalsky. |
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This important and timely study rethinks public sphere theory in the 20th century. Gilman-Opalsky provides a thoughtful examination of Habermas, Arendt, and Mills. Furthermore, the author astutely problematizes the prefigured national framework and brings back into focus the unique agency of nonbourgeois public spheres. Highly recommended. -- H. G. Reid CHOICE, July 2009 This is an excellent piece of research, and, to my mind, an interesting, normative political proposal as well. Gilman-Opalsky has a solid understanding of his sources, is fair in his criticisms, and has an original approach in trying to go beyond them. He brings together contemporary political concerns and theory in quite a convincing way. I am personally quite persuaded by his attempt to overcome the sway of more abstract varieties of currently fashionable cosmopolitanism, the negative results of which have for example contributed to the present near catastrophic situation of the world (via liberal imperialism). -- Andrew Arato, The New School for Social Research Read more...
