Reading Habermas Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere dissolves Habermasampampamprsquos monolithic stylization to precisely access his seminal distinction between the purely political polis of antiquity which excludes the private economy from the res publica and the modern public sphere with its rationalcritical discourse about commodity exchange and social labor in the political economy. Deconstructing the uniform mold of Structural Transformationampampamprsquos narrative about a rise and fall of the bourgeois public sphere in modernity also allows to identify and understand the ideologycritical methodologies of Habermasampampamprsquos theory reconstruction of Kantampampamprsquos ideal of the liberal public in the context of the French Revolution. Readers of this guide realize that Habermasampampamprsquos interpretation of a sociological and political category with the norms of constitutional theory and intellectual history causes the ampampampldquocollapsing of norm and descriptionampampamprdquo he acknowledged in 1989 and thus frequent misunderstandings about the historical validity of Structural Transformationampampamprsquos idealtype derived from Condorcetampampamprsquos absolute rationalism and Kantampampamprsquos ampampampldquounofficialampampamprdquo philosophy of history.