The public sphere : liberal modernity, Catholicism, Islam / Armando Salvatore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salvatore, Armando.

Series:

Culture and religion in international relations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public interest.

Common good.

Islam and state.

Church and state.

Islam and justice.

Civilization, Western.

Islamic civilization.

Islamic sociology.

Physical Description:

x, 293 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

This book is a theory-informed, comparative and historical exploration of the notion of the public sphere within Western and Islamic traditions. It situates the emergence of the modern public sphere in a wider historical and theoretical context than usually done in conventional analyses. The work traces cross-cutting genealogies spanning conventional borders between tradition and modernity, and in particular between the Western and the Islamic world. This approach unsettles received, evolutionary views of the public sphere as an exclusive legacy of Western political cultures. The public sphere is finally reconceived as a complex platform for the modern cultivation of culturally diverse, & competing, yet intersecting discourses.

Contents:

Introduction : the 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

Conclusion : after genealogy

toward a pluralist theory of the public sphere.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-282) and index.

ISBN:

140397473X

9781403974730

OCLC:

76416513

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