The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere：An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society

JürgenHabermasisProfessorEmeritusofPhilosophyattheUniversityofFrankfurtandProfessorofPhilosophyatNorthwesternUniversity.Hewasrecentlyawardedthe2004KyotoPrizeforArtsandPhilosophybytheInamoriFoundation.TheKyotoPrizeisaninternationalawardtohonorthosewhohavecontributedsignificantlytothescientific,cultural,andspiritualbettermentofmankind.