Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-317).

An answer to the question : "what is enlightenment?" / Immanuel Kant -- Excerpt from Philosophy of right / G.W.F. Hegel -- Excerpt from On liberty / John Stuart Mill -- Excerpt from The phantom public / Walter Lippmann -- Excerpt from The public and its problems / John Dewey -- Ex cerpt from Capitalism, socialism, and democracy / Joseph A. Schumpeter -- Excerpt from The crisis of parliamentary democracy / Carl Schmitt -- Excerpt from The human condition / Hannah Arendt -- The public sphere : an encyclopedia article / Jurgen Habermas -- Excerpt from Public sphe re and experience / Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge -- Rethinking the pu blic sphere : a contribution to the critique of actually existing democ racy / Nancy Fraser -- The market and the forum : three varieties of po litical theory / John Elster -- Societal complexity and public opinion / Niklas Luhmann -- Excerpt from Between facts and norms : contribution s to a discourse theory of law and democracy / Jurgen Habermas -- The i dea of public reason revisited / John Rawls -- National and transnation al public spheres / Bernhard Peters -- Expanding dialogue : the Interne t, public sphere, and transnational democracy / James Bohman -- Deliber ative democracy or agonistic pluralism? / Chantal Mouffe -- Excerpt fro m The claims of culture : equality and diversity in the global era / Se yla Benhabib -- Religion in the public sphere / Jurgen Habermas.