During the 1960s the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas introduced the notion of a "bourgeois public sphere" in order to describe the symbolic arena of politic

British and US scholars of German literature and culture assess the nature of public communications and the molding of public opinion in historical situations r

Is Habermas’s concept of the public sphere still relevant in an age of globalization, when the transnational flows of people and information have become incre

Weisser (English, U. of Hawaii, Hilo) addresses the issue of how to move writing instruction into the public sphere. Coverage includes the historical background