The Public Sphere Liberal Modernity,

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.

Armando Salvatore is Associate Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at Oriental Studies University, Naples, and Senior Research Fellow (Heisenberg Fellow) at the Institute of Social Sciences, Humboldt University, Berlin, and the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen. His present research explores the symbolic, political and practical nexus between religious traditions and secular formations across Eurasia. Among his most recent books (authored, edited, and co-edited), Islam and Modernity: Key Issues and Debates (2009), The Public Sphere: Liberal Modernity, Catholicism, Islam (2007), Islam in Process: Historical and Civilizational Perspectives (2006), Religion, Social Practice, and Contested Hegemonies (2005) and Public Islam and the Common Good (2004).

Introduction: For a 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 * After Genealogy: Towards a Pluralist Theory of the Public Sphere

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The Public Sphere Liberal Modernity, Catholicism, Islam

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