Public Space And Democracy

Moving from classical Greece to the present, Public Space and Democracy provides both historical accounts and a comparative analytical framework for understanding public space both as a place and as a product of various media, from speech to the Internet. These essays make a powerful case for thinking of modern technological developments not as the end of public space, but as an opportunity for reframing the idea of the public and of the public space as the locus of power.

Henaff is a philosopher and anthropologist.

The author of Friedrich Nietzche: The Politics of Transfiguration and Tight in Her Soul: The Life of Anna Louis Strong, Tracy B. Strong is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego.