Is There Hope for the Public Realm? Conversation as Interpretation. From: Social Research | Date: September 22, 1998| Author: TRACY, DAVID | COPYRIGHT 1998 New School for Social Research. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

To assure publicness, a movement to explicit argument must occur. A realm where argument is demanded of all participants is necessary. Truth in the public realm will yield a consensus of the community of inquiry. A community of inquiry must be egalitarian and democratic. According to many theorists, argument has been the primary candidate for publicness.

Publicness as Argument and Conversation

In the classical liberal tradition, to produce public discourse is to provide...

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