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The Aesthetics of Free Speech

Rethinking the Public Sphere

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  • © 2003

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Authors:
  1. John Michael Roberts

    1. Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Digging and Levelling the Capitalist Public Sphere

    • John Michael Roberts
    Pages 1-29

  3. Abstracting Dialogue

    • John Michael Roberts
    Pages 30-57

  4. Consummating Aesthetics

    • John Michael Roberts
    Pages 58-93

  5. John Stuart Mill and the Search for a State of Cultivation

    • John Michael Roberts
    Pages 94-121

  6. Jürgen Habermas and the Search for a State of Competency

    • John Michael Roberts
    Pages 122-161

  7. The Capitalist Form of the Public Sphere

    • John Michael Roberts
    Pages 162-194

  8. The Intuitive Form of Free Speech in the Proletarian and Bourgeois Public Spheres

    • John Michael Roberts
    Pages 195-216

  9. The State of Free Speech

    • John Michael Roberts
    Pages 217-258

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 259-277
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The Aesthetics of Free Speech: Rethinking the Public Sphere is one of the first books to theoretically explore the relationship between free speech and the public sphere. By drawing upon Marxist theory the author, John Michael Roberts, demonstrates how liberal theorists frequently construct an abstract aesthetic of 'rational', 'cultivated' and 'competent' discussion which then serves as a norm through which certain utterances can be humiliated and excluded from participating fully within the public sphere. However, the author also shows how excluded utterances develop their own aesthetic of free speech and how this aesthetic then comes back to haunt the bourgeois public sphere.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, UK

    John Michael Roberts

About the author

JOHN MICHAEL ROBERTS is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. He is co-editor of Critical Realism and Marxism (2001), Realism, Discourse and Deconstruction (2003) and After Habermas: New Perspectives on the Public Sphere (forthcoming, 2004).

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