Transnationalization of the Public Sphere and the Fate of the Public

In this text the author sets out to restore the almost forgotten figure of the public and the neglected idea of publicness to the core of debates on the future of the public sphere. The result is an exhilarating intellectual journey that combines a masterful history of these ideas in motion, as responses to the emergence of democratic nation states, wtih a discussion of the cahllenges they now face in a world system where issues around cosmopolitanism, regional integration, and global governance are moving to center stage.