Abstract

What is a "public domain"? "Public domain" is located? Today's "public sphere" in the scientific and technological progress, globalization, the key link far and wide road, as well as social and cultural influence on the identified process, whether it is showing what kind of development trend - disappear? Expansion? Decline? Or evolution? As well as media programs identified in the political theory of metaphorical meaning, the "public domain" is able to derive more meaning? "Public domain" can continue to serve as a tool to view the phenomenon of modern society the concept? This political philosophy for the start of this subject, first to explore these issues. This paper consists of three parts. The first part briefly summarized Habermas from 1962 to present its far-reaching "public domain" concept, with "public domain" as the center of research and controversy. In the second part of this article, the authors attempt by the phenomenological method to view everyday life can be seen the "public sphere" and even the concept of "public space." In the third part, the author also attempts to Seoul by Wei, published 50 years ago, "political philosophy," a book to convey a few ideas, re-shaping "political" dimension. What is public sphere? Where lies public sphere? Is public sphere presently disappearing, expanding, diminishing or evolving under the influence of technology, globalization, the Internet or any other factor that sociology or cultural analysis might bring in? Does "public sphere" constitute more than a convenient metaphor for speaking about the political debate as conveyed by the medias? Can the expression still be considered as an instrumental concept for investigating contemporary social realities? The aim of this paper is to take these "spontaneous" questions quite literally before elaborating on them from a political philosophy standpoint. The paper is divided into three parts. The first one will summarize a number of assertions and debates around the "public sphere" as they have been taking shape and evolving since Habermas'seminal work of 1962. In a second part, relying on a phenomenological approach, we move from the concept of "public sphere" to the more modest investigation of "public spaces" as we can approach them in everyday realities. In the third and final part, the author attempts at a further mapping of the "political territory" by bringing in the work of Eric Well, a political philosopher who might still have a few things to tell us, even if he published his Philosophie politique almost fifty years ago.