The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society was written by German philosopher and social theorist Jürgen Habermas and published in 1962 under the title Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit. Untersuchungen zu einer Kategorie der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft. In 1989 it was translated into English by Thomas Burger and Frederick Lawrence. Habermas’s work is examines democracy in society and how it is impacted by modern media and shifting social conditions.

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