Category Archives: CAS 507: Public Scholarship (Spring 2009)

Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere in 2 minutes

About a month ago or so, Rosa asked us to distill Jürgen Habermas’s Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere down to a two-minute “fairy tale.” I made a YouTube video, but I don’t think I posted it because I… well, … Continue reading

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Levinson’s Peculiar Conclusion and Our Civil Religion

In class last week, we discussed at length the peculiar conclusion to Sanford Levinson’s Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies, in which Levinson writes that we should hope “that the consciousness of the polity, especially of its future … Continue reading

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