Habermas: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere 

Thank you for this valuable commentary. (Background music super distracting)

I hade completely misunderstood the concept of refeudalization. This made things alot clearer but also messy for the things i'm doing Thanks for a good explanation

Love the music from Habermas' album 'Live At the Public Sphere'!

I had to do a project on Habermas and this video was extremely informative

This was awesome. Thank you so much for this! Please keep this up.

This is really well explained; love it! I do have one suggestion: would be great if you could leave a link or two to scholary works about this subject (would be a great help to students)

Great content and pace, thanks!

I'm impressed with the quality of this video. It's a great introduction to the subject.

Thank you for creating this video. It has helped me lots.

This is very good, nice depth of information in short time frame

Sooo informative, thank you for this! Really helps me with my PHIL 3500 course on ideology!!

Great video. I love me some Habermas.

pretty cool dude. A great weave of theory and history without overburdening the other.

I’m about to finish an essay on this, it’s been really interesting to learn about.

very helpful and insightful thank you!

I liked your video! However, where can i find online the book "The Permanent Campaign: New Media, New Politics"? Thank you

great help in understanding Habermas. Thanks

I don't mind the music... Great content.

This is a great video. Thankyou very much!

Very helpful overview for my undergrads :}

Very helpful video!

Great video!

Please, whats the image at 4:47 ?

Clear and concise

the music...why

As an ADHD folk who can't study from notes, thank you so much!

So prescient, ty!

Very nice and reflective video about his thoughts regarding the Public Sphere. The background music is maybe a bit too loud compared to the voice over, I found it a bit distracting, trying to focus on the narrative. Regardless, you have a new sub! great content :)

really great

Thank you so much for this! Please, please, please make more Habermas videos, e.g. about The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity and The Theory of Communicative Reason. I think Habermas is needed more than ever in this day and age.

You should do a video on John Dewey and William James. There is almost nothing on RU-vid done on them in a sophisticated way.

I like the background music. As long as it's not loud.

Your content is good, keep it up.

background music interferes with the speaker. Can u lower it or better remove it?

wow this brings to mind also mcluhan

great vid dude!!!

cool music, fits Habermas totally

How do you pronounce 'sphere' Man.

Well, I’m not impressed with Habermas’ overall theory but he makes some good points. - A very messy situation of verticals and horizontals of various type groups....I can say that my father was a newspaper editor from the thirties to the mid sixties and dealing with various autocratic publishers was a constant source of anger and frustration for him leading to his self-destruction.

Very nice :)

No one has said this out right, but language is the ultimate technology. Therefore as the video points out, in the evolution of the society the power that the printing publisher took was very notable. Perhaps its a platonic divide between the writer (an individual) and the reader (the mass) becomes even more significant. And there is a complex socio-typography that influences throughout the circulation of language. For example, usually the bible will have a very bible like typography. Language is never a medium free technology. So there will be a web like communication of language. While the bible and classical language will be extended in more organic fashion. Present language will have complexity that will be perhaps called socio-textuality. This video (Habermas) has captured a historical progression. But then we could always slice this world in the way most interesting.

He is still alive, you know. :P

This is veryy relevant right now.

Clear and succinct. Thank you.

The background music only serves as a distraction. You should re-upload these videos without the music. Great content, you got me hooked to your channel.

He is GREAT!

The most relevant philosophy of the modern age.

the public sefear?

@5.42 ooohhhh someone's got the big brainz

POV: your chillin with Audrey in the public sphere of the Twin Peaks coffee shop

The jazz music tho

Nice comment thread but I had to stop reading through it because of all of the complaints about the background music in the video, please rewrite your comments minus the complaints.

the audio is too loud in the mix.

Good video but the music is a big distraction.

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No bg music please!

Can we at least...turn down the music...?

The problem is with the speed at which these new forms of communications pop up and how the traditional academic only have methods that take years and years to develop. They will always lag behind the cultural manipulation of the algorithm tampering of corporate interests.

Sadly, the music is way too loud. It is disturbing :(

Dusseldorf

Wish you could turn off the background music...

I like the music I am tired of people bitching about it.

suhf-fear

Tone down the BGM.

What the hell is the issue with the background music in the comments? 1. it isn't distracting 2. it makes the video more smooth

what's with that music? removing that would be of great help

Tam dixit quam voluit. Interpretazione dichiarativa. Art. 1364 e 1367 cc. vigente.

Please keep volume of music in background very low or don't keep it. It is disturbing and makes it difficult to hear

4:28 ... Wut?

subject : good, but the intonation of a voice is very important in a video like this....

Background music is too disturbing and therefore redundant.

Voiceover inaudible over high pitched BGM. watched a minute, had to stop. Pity.

Hey dude... the presentation is quite good but the bgm is annoying....

What the video doesn't do is begin to explain why there is a perceived need to create a theory of communicative action. While trying to hold on to a concept of social transformation for the better inherited from Marx, it was obvious to western Marxists that dialectical materialism carries a vast amount of philosophical baggage unjustified by Marx's own materialist methodology. Key is the concepts "better", "justice", "the good", "happiness". That there is some shared meaning to these terms is taken for granted by Marx, but from a modern philosophical perspective they rely on Hegel's essentially theological worldview. To ascribe meaning or validity to these essential social concepts, Habermas envisages an "ideal speech situation" which assumes value concepts. The problem is that Habermas' work never escapes from the Kantian formalism of his starting point, so the leap from the formal criteria to meaning never really happens. You can see the same issue in the concept of the public sphere. Habermas retells the story of the emergence of mass politics, but the "sphere" is a formal concept which has no purchase on the content of what is being said. Again there is no successful link between form and content. The importance of mass politics is also in what is being said and not just the non-coercion of the context of the speech. But materialism cannot get from the form to the content without violating its formalist rules. In his later life Habermas spoke with Pope Benedict about his concern with collapsing values and the collapse of the family. But the question is whether you can defend the "traditional family" or any family norms from a materialist perspective.

the background music is so annoying and distracting

Public discourse is only applicable to thinking or rational people. Other opinionated people idolizes their own opinions thus unable to engage in relevant discourse. Openess and widening ones horison could be helpful in public discourses.

Suhfea

The narrator makes me feel drowzyyy! "School of life" has a good energetic narrator but limited content ...

the music sucks

Please remove the bloody music

Stupid music made me stop listening. Can't stand that crap in videos. Pity as this had potential.

Why this idiotic music?

Get rid of the f*cking music

The way you pronounce sphere is beyond triggering. What is wrong with you?

please please stop with the music, its almost the same volume of the talking and very hard to focus :(