A great cultural revolution struck Europe in the eighteenth century with the arrival of the public sphere. Public opinion in the form of new cultural institutio
The intellectual radicalism of the 1960s spawned a new set of questions about the role and nature of "the political" in social life, questions that have since r
This volume brings together theoretical meditations and empirical studies of the intersection of culture, power and history in social life. Contributors bring a
The way people think and act politically is not set in stone. People can and do change the fundamental cultural contours of their political situation. Their pol