Summary Jürgen Habermas’ article “The Public Sphere: An Encyclopaedia Article” is a conceptual‚ historical and liberal explanation of the Public Sphere as a discursive space where discussion occurs. Habermas defines the public sphere as a mediation between the private and authoritarian spheres; similar to a middle sector (a Bourgeois public sphere) where private citizens “confer…about matters of general interest". * * In Habermas’ account‚ the public sphere is founded in its simple accessibility
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How well does Jurgen Habermas’ concept of the ‘public sphere’ describe the culture of the internet? “Public sphere can be understood as a harmonious participation of different people without one overpowering the other and I believe that the same theory can be applied to the Internet and online communication today”. Joanna James What gives the clash of coffee shop talks and online participation in the discussion by commenting on the news? Surely
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The Gadamer-Habermas Debate Hermeneutics is a topic that has been debated about for many years and two philosophers that have impacted the thought on hermeneutics are Hans-George Gadamer (1900-2002) and Jürgen Habermas (1929- ). In this essay I begin by providing a brief history of hermeneutics and then I go on to explain Gadamer‘s philosophy followed by Habermas’ philosophy. The debate between Habermas and Gadamer began in 1967 after Habermas’ review of Gadamer’s famous work‚ Truth and Method
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The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article (1964) Jürgen Habermas; Sara Lennox; Frank Lennox New German Critique‚ No. 3. (Autumn‚ 1974)‚ pp. 49-55. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-033X%28197423%290%3A3%3C49%3ATPSAEA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z New German Critique is currently published by New German Critique. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use
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Human Interest Human Interest is a poem written on the events of conflict‚ which I will analysis throughout. The poem is about a man who has killed his wife because she was having an affair. It is quite a serious poem‚ particularly in the first two stanzas. This is directly compromised with the amount of slang used in the poem‚ such as‚ “Banged Up” and “I slogged my guts out”. This makes the impression that the he has become mentally unbalanced by the murder of his wife. The poem‚ Human
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One in three women are beaten or raped in their lifetime; that’s one billion women (United Nations). Some would say that is a pandemic. In Canada alone‚ more than 3000 women (along with 2500 children) are living in an emergency shelter to escape domestic violence. Each year‚ over 427‚000 women over the age of 15 reported they have been sexually assaulted. Since only about 10% of all sexual assaults are reported to the police‚ the actual number is much higher. You might be wondering what kind of people
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“One minute you’ve got a dying person… Then the next job you go to is a man with a cold who needs to see his GP.” [pic] [Lydia Emerson on the right with her co-worker Ursula Cherry on the left] Lydia Emerson‚ a conventional 19-year-old who grew up in a family of four in the city of Southampton is on her way to face the fast paced world of being a paramedic. Now 78 miles away studying at a top medical school called St. Georges in London‚ she discloses some of her most traumatic experiences
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Deven Lorenzo Leonis was born on December 9th‚ 1997. Deven was born with a heart disease and was in and out of the hospital his whole life. When Deven was 12 years old‚ he started to get very sick. He would have sore throats all the time‚ and he never had any energy. After a few years of not knowing what was wrong‚ Deven went to his doctor. In November‚ 2011‚ Deven had his tonsils and adenoids taken out. While he was in recovery‚ the doctors had told Deven’s mother that they had found a white substance
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The speaker’s split feelings reflected in the broken form of the sonnet in “Human Interest” In “Human Interest” the speaker has split feelings about his dead girlfriend‚ which are reflected in the form of the poem. The reader can see feelings of love‚ regret and grief and on the contrary feelings of hate and anger. The break between those divided feelings is visible in the broken form of the sonnet. The poem represents a broken form of the original Petrarchan sonnet. Firstly looking
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Human Interest is a poem revealing how love can drive people to murderous levels. Written by Carol Ann Duffy‚ this poem displays the treatment of women with a modern‚ chilling storyline. The use of Iambic Pentameter adds a rhythmical‚ fluctuating quality to the poem. This is also present in William Shakespeare’s‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ however the way Shakespeare executs this is to portray the love shown. Whereas in Duffy’s poem‚ iambic pentameter is used to create an ‘on edge’ feeling. It also can be
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