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Citation Inventory — docs/

Working artifact. Lists every cited work currently in docs/, with a confidence rating per item, ahead of building a canonical docs/sources.json bibliography. Once the bibliography is built and verified, this file can be removed. See ai-assisted-research.md for the citation-verification policy this artifact serves.

Confidence scale:


Baker, Keith Michael — “Defining the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France” (1992)

Berlin, Isaiah — “Two Concepts of Liberty” (1958)

Bruns, Axel — Are Filter Bubbles Real? (2019)

Calhoun, Craig (ed.) — Habermas and the Public Sphere (1992)

Cowan, Brian — The Social Life of Coffee (2005)

Durand, Cédric — Techno-féodalisme (2020)

Eley, Geoff — work cited as “Eley 1992”

Ellis, Markman — The Coffee House (2004)

Fraser, Nancy — “Rethinking the Public Sphere” (1990)

Goodman, Dena — The Republic of Letters (1994)

Habermas, Jürgen — Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit (1962)

Habermas, Jürgen — “Vorbereitende Bemerkungen zu einer Theorie der kommunikativen Kompetenz” (1971)

Habermas, Jürgen — “Wahrheitstheorien” (1973)

Habermas, Jürgen — Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns (1981)

Habermas, Jürgen — Moralbewußtsein und kommunikatives Handeln (1983)

Habermas, Jürgen — Faktizität und Geltung (1992)

Habermas, Jürgen — exchange with Rawls in Journal of Philosophy (1995)

Habermas, Jürgen — Wahrheit und Rechtfertigung (1999)

Habermas, Jürgen — “Überlegungen und Hypothesen…” / “Reflections and Hypotheses…” (2021/2022)

Horace — Epistles I.2.40 (“Sapere aude”)

Jefferson, Thomas — Declaration of Independence (1776)

Kant, Immanuel — “Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?” (1784)

Kant, Immanuel — Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten (1785)

Kant, Immanuel — Kritik der praktischen Vernunft (1788)

Krause, Sharon — work on Montesquieu

Landes, Joan — Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution (1988)

Lippmann, Walter — Public Opinion (1922)

Locke, John — Two Treatises of Government (1689)

Mah, Harold — “Phantasies of the Public Sphere” (c. 2000)

Mill, John Stuart — On Liberty (1859)

Mill, John Stuart — The Subjection of Women (1869)

Montesquieu — De l’esprit des lois (1748)

Morozov, Evgeny — “Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason” (2022)

Mouffe, Chantal — agonistic-pluralist position (no specific work cited)

Negt, Oskar, and Alexander Kluge — Öffentlichkeit und Erfahrung (1972)

Otteson, James — Adam Smith scholarship

Paine, Thomas — Common Sense (1776)

Paine, Thomas — Rights of Man (1791)

Paine, Thomas — The Age of Reason (1794)

Pariser, Eli — The Filter Bubble (2011)

Pettit, Philip — Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government (1997)

Pincus, Steve — “‘Coffee Politicians Does Create’” (c. 1995)

Rothschild, Emma — Economic Sentiments (2001)

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques — Discours sur l’origine et les fondements de l’inégalité parmi les hommes (1755)

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques — Du contrat social (1762)

Skinner, Quentin — Liberty before Liberalism (1998)

Smith, Adam — The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)

Smith, Adam — An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)

Spector, Céline — work on Montesquieu

Spinoza, Baruch — Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (1670)

Varoufakis, Yanis — Technofeudalism (2023)

Voltaire — Treatise on Tolerance (1763)

Voltaire (apocryphal) — “I disapprove of what you say…”

Warner, Michael — Publics and Counterpublics (2002)

Wark, McKenzie — Capital is Dead (2019)

Winch, Donald — Adam Smith’s Politics (1978)

Wollstonecraft, Mary — A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)


Unsourced references

Named thinkers / claims in the docs without a specific cited work; flagged for completeness.


Summary counts


Highest-priority items to verify

The entries where a hallucination or mis-cite would be most damaging — items the docs cite confidently in body text but where training-derived knowledge is not bet-on-it:

  1. Habermas, “Reflections and Hypotheses on a Further Structural Transformation of the Political Public Sphere,” Theory, Culture & Society 39(4), 2022. — Doc itself flags vol/issue. The German Sonderband editors and Sonderband number (“Leviathan Sonderband 37, ed. Seeliger and Sevignani”) should be verified against the actual volume.
  2. Morozov, “Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason,” New Left Review 133/134, 2022. — Doc flags issue. Cited specifically against the techno-feudal frame; if the issue or year are off, the load-bearing dissent is not properly anchored.
  3. Mah, “Phantasies of the Public Sphere: Rethinking the Habermas of Historians,” Journal of Modern History (c. 2000). — Doc flags vol/issue/page.
  4. Pincus, “‘Coffee Politicians Does Create’: Coffeehouses and Restoration Political Culture,” Journal of Modern History (c. 1995). — Doc flags vol/issue/pages.
  5. Habermas, “Wahrheitstheorien” (1973) in Fahrenbach ed., Wirklichkeit und Reflexion (Neske, 1973). — Doc flags pagination.
  6. Habermas, “Vorbereitende Bemerkungen…” (1971) in Habermas/Luhmann, Theorie der Gesellschaft oder Sozialtechnologie (Suhrkamp, 1971). — Doc flags pagination.
  7. Habermas–Rawls 1995 exchange in Journal of Philosophy. — Doc names the venue and year but no titles or pagination.
  8. Lippmann, Public Opinion (1922) Ch. XV. — Doc flags page ref. Worth verifying the chapter location of “manufacture of consent” against the actual 1922 text.
  9. Smith, Wealth of Nations IV.3.2 — closest verifiable phrasing of the “monopolising spirit” passage. — Doc itself reconstructs the closest verifiable wording; worth a direct read against the Glasgow edition.
  10. Eley 1992 — cited only as “Eley 1992” three times. The doc never gives a title; if it intends his essay in Calhoun ed. 1992, that should be made explicit.