This book explores conceptual and institutional developments of the notion of the public sphere in the West and in the Islamic world, tackling historic ruptures spanning the formation and transformation of the Euro-Mediterranean world. Set against an imploding grammar of socio-political life, the modern liberal public sphere appears in a new light.
'…highly original, sophisticated and enlightening…a masterful account of the modern debate on the public square and civil society.' – S. Parvez Manzoor, Journal of Islamic Studies
Introduction: For a Genealogy of the Public Sphere
Religion, Civilization, and the Redefinition of Tradition
Bridging Imagination, Practice, and Discourse
The Public Reason of the Commoner
The Collective Pursuit of Public Weal
The Implosion of Traditions and the Redefinition of Common Sense
The Modern Public Sphere: Transforming Practical Reason into Prudential Communication
After Genealogy: Towards a Pluralist Theory of the Public Sphere
ARMANDO SALVATORE is Reader in Comparative Historical Sociology and Social Theory at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. His Ph.D. thesis was granted the 1994 Malcolm Kerr Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences by the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA). It was later published as Islam and the Political Discourse of Modernity (1997). He has edited several volumes, including Public Islam and the Common Good (with Dale F. Eickelman, 2004), Religion, Social Practice, and Contested Hegemonies (2005, with Mark LeVine), and Islam in Process: Historical and Civilizational Perspectives (2006, with Johann P. Arnason and Georg Stauth). He is editor of the Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam.
Description
This book explores conceptual and institutional developments of the notion of the public sphere in the West and in the Islamic world, tackling historic ruptures spanning the formation and transformation of the Euro-Mediterranean world. Set against an imploding grammar of socio-political life, the modern liberal public sphere appears in a new light.
Reviews
'…highly original, sophisticated and enlightening…a masterful account of the modern debate on the public square and civil society.' – S. Parvez Manzoor, Journal of Islamic Studies
Contents
Introduction: For a Genealogy of the Public Sphere
Religion, Civilization, and the Redefinition of Tradition
Bridging Imagination, Practice, and Discourse
The Public Reason of the Commoner
The Collective Pursuit of Public Weal
The Implosion of Traditions and the Redefinition of Common Sense
The Modern Public Sphere: Transforming Practical Reason into Prudential Communication
After Genealogy: Towards a Pluralist Theory of the Public Sphere
Authors
ARMANDO SALVATORE is Reader in Comparative Historical Sociology and Social Theory at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. His Ph.D. thesis was granted the 1994 Malcolm Kerr Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences by the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA). It was later published as Islam and the Political Discourse of Modernity (1997). He has edited several volumes, including Public Islam and the Common Good (with Dale F. Eickelman, 2004), Religion, Social Practice, and Contested Hegemonies (2005, with Mark LeVine), and Islam in Process: Historical and Civilizational Perspectives (2006, with Johann P. Arnason and Georg Stauth). He is editor of the Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam.
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