The paradigm of rationalism represented by Habermas is the most widely-used in the research of public sphere, which has been suffering from increasing criticism in recent years. The paper is to review some re?ection with the perspective of “emotion”. Fraser had advocated the model of multiple publics. Based on this research, some scholars treated “emotion” as one kind of public practice. Eugenia regarded the “public” as concrete history formation and discussed the relationship between “emotion” and the formation of the “public”. Krause and Nussbaum rejected the binary oppositions model of “cognition and emotion”. Krause proposed a new kind of politics of passion and pointed out the role of emotion in rational judgment. The paper also discusses the meaning of the perspective of “emotion” in research of public sphere in contemporary China.