La formación del «espacio público» como factor de cambio político: precisiones al concepto de «publicidad» burguesa

• Main Author: Francisco Sevillano Calero
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad de Navarra 2005-11-01
• Series: Memoria y Civilización
• Subjects: espacio público; cultura política; libertad; individualismo; historia de los conceptos
• Online Access: https://www.unav.edu/publicaciones/revistas/index.php/myc/article/view/33746

This study explores common-sense meanings of "public space" and "political culture", despite the ambiguity that has been inherent in both expressions since they were first articulated and defined in the early 1960s. The ways in which these expressions have been conditioned by their use in disciplines such as historiography since the 1980s is emphasized, especially in relation to the dialectic between the State and freedom which underlies political change in the progress of modernity. The principle line of argument followed here holds that distinctions between "public" and "private" are made in the specific context of each historical period on the basis of a concept of individual freedom.