Alexander Kluge & Oskar Negt 
Public Sphere and Experience 
Analysis of the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere

The 'public sphere’ is a key concept in political discourse, designating a space for political action. But is this a single authoritative and universal space in which various positions compete for recognition, or does it consist of multiple local spaces spread over diverse collectivities? In Kluge and Negt’s groundbreaking book they examine the material conditions of experience in an arena that had previously figured only as an abstract term: the media of mass and consumer culture.



With new, up-to-date introduction from Alexander Kluge.

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Oskar Negt (1934-2024) was an award-winning filmmaker, TV producer, theorist and editor, and owner of the Development Company for Television Production and Cairos Film Company. A student of Theodor Adorno and assistant to J�rgen Habermas, he was also Professor of Sociology at the University of Hannover.