The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry Into a Category of Bourgeois Society

Jürgen Habermas. *The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere*. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021 [corrected edition]. Landmark 1962 study tracing the bourgeois public sphere's emergence in 18th-century coffeehouses, salons and periodical press – analyzing its rational-critical debate as foundation for democracy, then charting its "refeudalization" through mass media, consumer culture and welfare state intervention. Trade paperback, ~300pp, with Habermas's systematic historical-sociological framework influencing media studies, democratic theory and Frankfurt School scholarship. Essential primary text for political philosophy, communication studies and modernity critiques. **Condition:** Very Good: light shelfwear to glossy wrappers, spine uncreased, pages clean and unmarked with no highlighting. Superior reading copy. Habermas's most influential work defining the public sphere concept – perennially cited across political science, sociology and cultural studies; 2021 edition includes updated introduction and notes.…