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Social Science Research Council Home About All Essays SSRC IPK Archived : Last updated 06/12/12 This essay forum strives to build an integrative discussion for a fragmented interdisciplinary field of study on the public sphere. Featured Essays Marc Lynch: Political Science and the New Arab Public Sphere Erik S. Reinert: Economics and the Public Sphere: The Rise of Esoteric Knowledge, Refeudalization, Crisis and Renewal Axel Honneth: Idiosyncrasy as a Tool of Knowledge: Social Criticism in the Age of the Normalized Intellectual Jacques Revel: Public Uses of History: Expectations and Ambiguities Mark Thoma: New Forms of Communication and the Public Mission of Economics: Overcoming the Great Disconnect Wolfgang Streeck: Public Sociology as a Return to Political Economy Michael Burawoy: The Return of the Repressed: Recovering the Public Face of U.S. Sociology Thomas Bender: Historians in Public Lisa Anderson: ‘Too Much Information:’ International Affairs, Political Science and the Public Sphere Rogers M. Smith: Political Science and the Public Sphere in the 21st Century Michael Burawoy: Redefining the Public University: Developing an Analytical Framework Stephen Walt: International Affairs and the Public Sphere Rakesh Khurana: Why Are There Business Schools in Universities? Seyla Benhabib: The Arab Spring: Religion, Revolution and the Public Square Herbert J. Gans: Toward a Public Social Science Tony Judt: The Disintegration of the Public Sector: Recasting Public Conversation Jürgen Habermas: An Avantgardistic Instinct for Relevances: Intellectuals and their Public Rogers M. Smith: The Public Responsibilities of Political Science Special Feature: 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Wall Overview Andrew Arato: From Revolutionaries to External Vanguards Mark R. Beissinger: How the Impossible Becomes Inevitable: The Public Sphere and the Collapse of Soviet Communism Hauke Brunkhorst: After 1989 and Beyond: Three Theses Jeffrey Goldfarb: The Not So Lost Treasure of the Revolutionary Tradition: 1989 and the Politics of Small Things Jack Goldstone: Why no Green Revolution in Iran? 1989 vs. 2009 Julia Hell : Dissolution / Revolution: Uwe Tellkamp’s post-89 Novel Der Turm and the Peculiar Configuration of the Public Sphere in the Late GDR Konrad H. Jarausch: People Power? Explaining 1989 Michael D. Kennedy: Public Spheres, Private Lives, and Roundtable Negotiations in 1989 and 2009 Elzbieta Matynia : 1989 and the Theater of Politics Steven Pfaff: From Revolution to Reunification: The East German Wende Two Decades Later Other Essays Craig Calhoun: Social Science for Public Knowledge Herbert J. Gans: A Sociology for Public Sociology Lauren Berlant: Affect, Noise, Silence, Protest: Ambient Citizenship Michael Schudson: A Family of Public Spheres Shanto Iyengar and James Curran: Media Systems, News Delivery and Citizens’ Knowledge of Current Affairs Michael X. Delli Carpini: The Inherent Arbitrariness of the ‘News’ versus ‘Entertainment’ Distinction Craig Calhoun: Remaking America: Public Institutions and the Public Good Related Conference: The Public Mission of the Social Sciences and Humanities Essay Series and Special Features Universities & the Public Sphere Public Sphere Formation Public Institutions & the Public Good 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Wall ICA 2009 Mini-Plenary Conference: The Public Mission of the Social Sciences and Humanities Social Science Research Council - One Pierrepont Plaza, 15th Floor | Brooklyn, NY 11201 USA | P: 212.377.2700 | F: 212.377.2727 | E:...