First published as a Norton paperback by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1992. "With a new epilogue"--front cover Includes bibliographical references (pages 446-464) and index.
Contents:
The public domain -- Roles -- The audience : a gathering of strangers -- Public roles -- Public and private -- Man as actor -- The impact of industrial capitalism on public life -- Personality in public -- The public men of the 19th century -- Collective personality -- The end of public culture -- Charisma becomes uncivilized -- Community becomes uncivilized -- The actor deprived of his art -- The tyrannies of intimacy -- Epilogue: What happened to the public realm.
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