Conditions and difficulties of building the public opinion

Abstract

This paper aims to show that public opinion is a contradictory notion as well as an entity that is difficult to be enacted. It has a contradictory nature because the public who recognizes itself in its propositional contents does not take it as an opinion but as a fact and the public who doesn’t recognize itself in it, public opinion is not public. The article then proceeds to show the difficulties in enacting public opinion given the ephemeral and fragmental nature of modern experience that emerges from it.