# Quote — Jurgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere

> All affected can accept the consequences and the side effects that [the norm's] general observance can be anticipated to have for the satisfaction of everyone's interests, and the consequences are preferred to those of known alternative possibilities for regulation.

- Author: [Jurgen Habermas](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jurgen-habermas.md)
- Book: [The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jurgen-habermas/the-structural-transformation-of-the-public-sphere.md)
- Page: 65
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## More from this book

> [According to Habermas, the genesis of the bourgeois public sphere resulted from a combination of early capitalist commercial development and the organization of territorial … Representative publicness involved a re-presenting or staging for the purposes of display and acclamation, hence] this publicness (or publicity) of representation was not constituted as a social realm, that is, as a public sphere; rather, it was something like a status attribute, if this term may be permitted.

p. 7 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jurgen-habermas/the-structural-transformation-of-the-public-sphere/according-to-habermas.md)

> The bourgeois public sphere may be conceived above all as the sphere of private people come together as a public; they soon claimed the public sphere regulated from above against the public authorities themselves, to engage them in a debate over the general rules governing relations in the basically privatized but publicly relevant sphere of commodity exchange and social labor.

p. 27 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jurgen-habermas/the-structural-transformation-of-the-public-sphere/the-bourgeois-public.md)

> The usage of the words “public" and “public sphere” betrays a multiplicity of concurrent meanings. Their origins go back to various historical phases and, when applied synchronically to the conditions of a bourgeois society that is industrially advanced and constituted as a social-welfare state, they fuse into a clouded amalgam. Yet the very conditions that make the inherited language seem inappropriate appear to require these words, however confused their employment.

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