Who are the Public? Public Sphere, Opinions, Moods & History

Who are the public? What is public opinion, public moods? Philosophers Thomas Hobbes, Jurgen Habermas (The Public Sphere), John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Alexis de Toqueville and J.S. Mill among others have all conceptualise the public in a certain way. But what if the public are not who they seem? Polling, the birth of Gallup (I look at its history), statistics and mass consumer society and mass democracy have all changed how the public are thought of. I look at this history and try to think about how it affects politics.

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Sources

Jodi Dean, Publicity’s Secret

Hans, Speier, Historical Development of Public Opinion, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/220561

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