Public Sphere and Experience: Toward an Analysis of the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere.

Vromen, Suzanne; Negt, Oskar; Kluge, Alexander

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“…Lukács can be read as making the following argument: Because of the particular way in which the working class is exploited, it has an interest in understanding the particular way in which proletarian labor power is constituted as a commodity. But one cannot understand this without understanding how all commodities are socially constituted as commodities, that is, without understanding capitalist society as a totality (Lukács [ ] 1971aFeenberg 2014: 237;Kluge and Negt [1972] 2016: 255).…”

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Social Structure and Epistemic Privilege

Stahl

2023

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Lukács is widely recognized as being the first critical theorist to have explicitly developed the idea of a “standpoint theory”. According to such a theory, members of oppressed groups enjoy an epistemic privilege regarding the nature of their oppression. However, there is no agreement regarding what precise argument Lukács offers for his claims regarding the alleged epistemic privilege of the working class. Additionally, it remains unclear whether later feminist standpoint theories share any continuity with Lukács’s argument. In this analysis, I identify four arguments for the epistemic privilege of oppressed groups that could be attributed to Lukács. I argue that, although Lukács does not consistently endorse any specific argument, the most promising interpretation suggests that epistemic privilege arises from a contradiction between the norms that guide the self-understanding of such groups and the effects of the social practices they are socially obligated to engage in.

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Section: The Interest Interpretationmentioning

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Social Structure and Epistemic Privilege

Stahl

2023

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“…Habermas's critics, namely Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge (2016), proposed a classrelated conceptualisation of the public sphere, bringing forth the problematics of the bourgeois public sphere. Negt and Kluge argued that the problem with the bourgeois public sphere lies, not only in what Habermas described as the refeudalisation of the public sphere, but in the contradictions inherent in the bourgeois public sphere, even in its ideal form.…”

Section: Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Spheresmentioning

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“…The access to information itself -distributed and deliberated in the public sphere -is to a great extent determined by the unequal material conditions characterising industrial societies (Golding 2017: 4307). Negt and Kluge (2016) bring forth a broader understanding of the public sphere, as a general horizon organising human experience, which is constantly evolving. The prevailing capitalist mode of production and its development, along with the subsequent changes it brings to the people's living conditions, strongly determines the character and the functions of the public sphere: "They [Negt & Kluge] conceive of the public sphere as a historically developing form of the mediation between the cultural organization of human qualities and senses on the one hand and developing capitalist production on the other" (KnödlerBunte, Lennox & Lennox 1975: 53).…”

Section: Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Spheresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, Habermas's understanding of the bourgeois public sphere as a legitimate sphere to assess and control state power through the formation of (a bourgeois) public opinion, leaves out that the bourgeois public sphere becomes an important instrument of class supremacy and effective control of the proletariat. The articulation of society's general essence and general will by the bourgeois, and the subsequent foregrounding of the bourgeois public sphere as the one representing all public life, is a forceful political mechanism excluding workers, migrants, women and their realities (Hansen 1991(Hansen [2016: xviixviii). Negt and Kluge, among others (Fraser 1990), maintain that a plurality of public spheres exist.…”

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“…Instead of an idealistic and universalist notion, the public sphere emerges as a plural, historically situated, and contested sphere. Different kinds of publicity exist that reflect the differences in the technical, economic and political forms of organisation (Hansen 2016(Hansen [1991: xxix). Dominant social groups hegemonise the publicity and produce meanings that naturalise and legitimise the privileged positions and the reproduction of the capitalist social relations at national and transnational levels.…”

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