http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/public-sphere Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:35:09 -0400 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:35:09 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1000/the-contemporary-global-public-sphere-as-reincarnation-of-habermas-bourgeois-society By Shaun Docherty - Our contemporary global public sphere is made up of a tiny proportion of the world’s population. Affluent, exclusive, and concerned only with perpetuating its own economic advancement, this contemporary global public sphere is an anachronism that possesses all the constituent elements of the early eighteenth century bourgeois public sphere identified by Jürgen Habermas in his seminal work, “The Structural Transformation of the Global Sphere.” This is a particularly bold statement considering Habermas was heavily criticised for his theory, was believed to have been unhappy... Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:40 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1000/the-contemporary-global-public-sphere-as-reincarnation-of-habermas-bourgeois-society