Reading Habermas Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere dissolves Habermasamprsquos 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 Transformationamprsquos narrative about a rise and fall of the bourgeois public sphere in modernity also allows to identify and understand the ideologycritical methodologies of Habermasamprsquos theory reconstruction of Kantamprsquos ideal of the liberal public in the context of the French Revolution. Readers of this guide realize that Habermasamprsquos interpretation of a sociological and political category with the norms of constitutional theory and intellectual history causes the ampldquocollapsing of norm and descriptionamprdquo he acknowledged in 1989 and thus frequent misunderstandings about the historical validity of Structural Transformationamprsquos idealtype derived from Condorcetamprsquos absolute rationalism and Kantamprsquos ampldquounofficialamprdquo philosophy of history. Specifically the guide explains that Habermasamprsquos key construct of a ampldquomorally pretentious rationalityamprdquo of the bourgeois public sphere entirely depends on the claim about ampldquonatural lawsamprdquo harmoniously regulating the economy. While neoliberalism still maintains this claim Hegel ampldquodecisively destroyedamprdquo it already in 1821.