... of Jürgen Habermas. In order to really understand the democratic mission of public libraries and how it is related to the public sphere, the author argues that LIS scholars need to look beyond Habermas' theories of the public sphere. Design/methodology/approach This is a theoretical article...

...John Buschman Neoliberalism Higher education Theory Librarianship Academic librarianship Dorothy Smith Educational neoliberalism J.L. Austin Jürgen Habermas In the midst of the first quarter of the twenty-first century, the academic language of power in library and information...