Chapter 23 The public sphere (Habermas)

This chapter is short, but concise and profound. Habermas talks about the histroy of public sphere very briefly, but again, very penetrating and illuminating. His analysis of feudal lord makes readers to rethink about the meaning of "representation". The liberal model of the public sphere and the ideal newspaper press remind me of the earlier readings (especially those on the digital divide) which criticize the press corporation as serving particular interests. The concept of "refeudalization" is absolutely an interesting idea.

Maybe because I'm from a different culture and learned history from a different perspective, much of the histroy analysis mentioned in this piece is new to me. For example, I do not quite see the role of the Chartist Movement and the Feburary Revolution in the development of the public sphere.

Just to remind myself, Habermas is translated into "哈本马斯" in Chinese. There might be other translations...