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, violated copyright law. Eh. But now, there’s this cool website xtranormal that allows you to [...]
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 generations will be regulated in the proper direction.” For Levinson, it is “our hope that [...]
