In an essay about “rethinking” this concept, Nancy Fraser argues that its formulator ignored the exclusion of minority groups. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this area of social life whose “structural transformation” is examined in a book by Jürgen Habermas (“YUR-gun HAH-bur-moss”).
ANSWER: public sphere [or Öffentlichkeit; accept The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society; accept Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit. Untersuchungen zu einer Kategorie der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft; accept “Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy”; reject “private sphere”]
[10h] Habermas uses this adjective to describe the power and rationality available in the public sphere. A behavior described by this adjective titles a work that posits a societal colonization of the lifeworld by systems.
ANSWER: communicative [or kommunikativen; accept communicative action or The Theory of Communicative Action or Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns]
[10e] Jürgen Habermas was born in this country, where the theory of communicative action led him to diverge from a school of social theory led by Theodor Adorno.
ANSWER: Germany [or Federal Republic of Germany or Bundesrepublik Deutschland; accept Weimar Republic; accept West Germany]
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