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(Re)thinking culture thickly: The public realm from Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition to the Bennett Institute report

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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Abstract

European Journal of Cultural Studies, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 408-426, April 2026.
Terms such as ‘public’, ‘public good’, ‘public value’ and ‘public domain’ occur frequently in policy documents. Without a sense of what ‘public’ means, however, not just in everyday language, but as a ‘thick concept’ that has acquired resonance over time, ...