Introduction: preliminary demarcation of a type of bourgeois public sphere: The initial question -- Remarks on the type of representative publicness -- On the genesis of the Bourgeois public sphere -- Social structures of the public sphere: The basic blueprint -- Institutions of the public sphere -- The public sphere in the world of letters in relation to the public sphere in the political realm -- Political functions of the public sphere: The model case of British development -- Civil society as the sphere of private autonomy -- The bourgeois public sphere: idea and ideology: Public opinion -- Publicity as the bridging principle between politics and morality -- The social-structural transformation of the public sphere: The tendency toward a mutual infiltration of public and private spheres -- From a culture-debating public to a culture-consuming public -- The transformation of the public sphere's political function: From the journalism of private men of letters to the public consumer services of the mass media -- Manufactured publicity and nonpublic opinion: the voting behavior of the population -- The political public sphere and the transformation of the liberal constitutional state into a social-welfare state -- On the concept of public opinion: Public opinion as a fiction of constitutional law- and the social-psychological liquidation of the concept -- A sociological attempt at clarification

1. Communication -- Philosophy
2. Public Opinion