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Kenneth Baynes

Habermas’s Case for Democracy: the Public Sphere, Communicative Reason and the ‘Co-originality’ of Public and Private Autonomy

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Jürgen Habermas, one of the most influential philosophers of the last half-century, died last March at the age of 96.  Despite his many important contributions to philosophy and social theory, he will perhaps most be remembered as a theorist of the public sphere.   This was the topic of his first book, The Structural Transformation of…