Moving from classical Greece to the present, Public Space and Democracy provides 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.
Contributors: Sylviane Agacinski, Institut des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Benjamin R. Barber, Rutgers U; Marcel Detienne, Johns Hopkins U; Paul Dumouchel, U of Quebec, Montreal; J. Peter Euben, UC Santa Cruz; Marcel Hénaff, U of California, San Diego; Jacqueline Lichtenstein, U of Paris; Anne Norton, U of Pennsylvania; Tracy B. Strong, U of California, San Diego; Sigheki Tominaga, Kyoto U; Dana R. Villa, UC Santa Barbara; Samuel Weber, UCLA.