Book · 1962 · Nonfiction
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
The MIT Press · 301 pages
★ 6.8 editorial score
Public opinion has a history, and Habermas locates its birth in the coffeehouses, salons, and newspapers where private men first argued about power. Advertising and mass media turned that argument back into spectacle.
