One bourgeois phase supplied the ideal of reasoned public debate.

Evidence

The idea fundamental to the presentation of recent university history in the introduction to University and Society reappeared here as a structural principle: one particular phase of bourgeois development provided the modern age with the idea of having reasoned public debate over matters of general interestbut social conditions then made it more and more difficult to put this idea into practice. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 584

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the book’s organizing structural principle: idea of reasoned public debate originating in one phase of bourgeois development.
• XREF: connects to: Widening the public sphere turns reasoned debate into interest conflict. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 586; The power to set the etiquette of debate is itself political power — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 161; Marx treated the bourgeois public sphere as a mirror for its own unbourgeois realization — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 585 (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Widening the public sphere turns reasoned debate into interest conflict. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 586; The power to set the etiquette of debate is itself political power — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 161; Marx treated the bourgeois public sphere as a mirror for its own unbourgeois realization — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 585 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• The liberal public sphere is necessarily structured by power, not merely imperfect #complicates (0.83) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 897
• Widening the public sphere turns reasoned debate into interest conflict. #complicates (0.82) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 586
• Extending the public sphere made bourgeois theorists brand the people a fickle mass #complicates (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2370
• Consensus is manufactured through the process of debate itself. #complicates (0.76)