Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the reception and impact of Jürgen Habermas’s global academic best seller in the USA between 1974 and 2018. It specifically addresses the consequences of the long delay in the publication of the English translation of Habermas’s 1962 public sphere concept until 1989 in the context of Habermas’s paradigm shift from the Kantian ideal of a participatory democracy to a systems-theoretical interpretation of deliberative democracy, which informs Between Facts and Norms (1992/1996).

Design/methodology/approach

This paper can be classified as a “conceptual paper” that draws on empirical research, namely, Adrian Rauchfleisch’s (2017) bibliometric co-citation analysis of two decades of public sphere research, which features a multi-dimensional scaling of these research communities based on the distance matrix of the co-citation network.

Findings

As the 22,000 scholarly citations for structural transformation as of April 2018 already indicate, this paper confirms in detail that Habermas’s original public sphere concept attracts significantly more academic interest on an interdisciplinary basis than Between Facts and Norms, which no longer pursues a critical theory of contemporary democracy. Instead, this shift toward a uniquely sophisticated theory construction in the realm of normativity produces a work in Rechtstheorie (Thomas McCarthy) that is by definition removed from political practice. The paper demonstrates that only the criteria developed in structural transformation can be applied to the analysis of constitutional crises in the USA.

Originality/value

This paper was researched and written solely by the author. All sources are clearly identified.

中文翻译：

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哈贝马斯全球学术畅销书的理论与实践影响：美国公共领域的结构转型

目的

本文旨在分析尤尔根·哈贝马斯 (Jürgen Habermas) 的全球学术畅销书在 1974 年至 2018 年间在美国的接受度和影响。它专门针对哈贝马斯 (Habermas) 1962 年公共领域概念的英文译本迟迟未出版的后果。 1989 年，哈贝马斯的范式从康德式的参与式民主理想转变为协商民主的系统理论解释，这为事实与规范之间提供了信息（1992/1996）。

设计/方法/方法

本文可以归类为借鉴实证研究的“概念论文”，即 Adrian Rauchfleisch (2017) 对公共领域研究的 20 年的文献计量共引分析，其特点是基于这些研究社区的多维尺度共被引网络的距离矩阵。

发现

正如截至 2018 年 4 月的 22,000 篇关于结构转型的学术引用已经表明的那样，本文详细证实了哈贝马斯最初的公共领域概念在跨学科基础上吸引了更多的学术兴趣，而不是在事实与规范之间，后者不再追求当代的批判理论。民主。取而代之的是，这种向规范性领域中独特复杂的理论构建的转变产生了 Rechtstheorie (Thomas McCarthy) 中的一部作品，该作品根据定义与政治实践无关。该论文表明，只有在结构转型中制定的标准才能用于分析美国的宪法危机。

原创性/价值

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