Ali, Muzaffar
The public sphere rediscovered - Arendt and the perennial presence of Aristotle in Habermas
- Economic & Political Weekly
- 57(23), Jun, 4, 2022: p.19-21
This article aims to re-evaluate the infl uence the Greeks and especially Aristotle have had on Jürgen Habermas’s thought via Hannah Arendt. The purpose of such a reassessment is to argue that Habermas’s reconstruction of the public sphere is conceptually yet indirectly embedded in the Aristotelian historical and intellectual trajectory, which is often neglected. – Reproduced