The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere

The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (in German Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit. Untersuchungen zu einer Kategorie der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft), by Jürgen Habermas, was published in 1962 and translated into English in 1989 by Thomas Burger and Frederick Lawrence. The book is an important contribution to modern understanding of liberal or 'bourgeois' democracy and is notable, according to Todd Gitlin, for 'transforming media studies into a hardheaded discipline.'