Reflections on the Public Realm^*

Bridge, Gary (editor) / Watson, Sophie (editor) / Sennett, Richard (author)

The New Blackwell Companion to the City ; 390-397

Wiley‐Blackwell Companions to Geography

2011-02-25

8 pages

9781444395105 , 9781405189811

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395105.ch34

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

the public realm ‐ and its reflections , moves, to understand shift in political philosophy ‐ Kant and Hegel, equating public with the impersonal , Hegel's answer, dominating nineteenth‐century thinking ‐ about public realms , Simmel, and streets of Berlin ‐ urbanites, identifying with ways, that the others would know that they were not going to be invaded , impulse, to trade using money ‐ and accumulation of profit , civil society, one of fractures and partialities , getting beyond the mask of rationality ‐ notions of the public, for Arendt and Habermas , urban rationality as in Hegel – rationality, a property of civic action , whole trajectory of Habermas's project ‐ bringing civil society back into the public realm , changes in bureaucracy of work and changing bureaucracy of welfare state ‐ effect on individuals, intensely privatizing