"First published as a Norton paperback 1992, updated 2017"--Title page verso.
"With a new epilogue"--front cover.
Bibliography
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.
