US EditionJürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96
Jürgen Habermas shaped post-war European thought with his theory of communicative action and influenced political debate for over seven decades, publishing more than 14,000 works.
- Publisher Suhrkamp said on Saturday that Jürgen Habermas, the German philosopher and sociologist, died in Starnberg, near Munich, at age 96.
- Born on June 18, 1929 in Dusseldorf, Jürgen Habermas grew up in Gummersbach and earned a doctorate in 1954 before joining the University of Frankfurt's Institute for Social Research under Theodor W. Adorno.
- His major works include The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and the two-volume Theory of Communicative Action, for which he received the 2007 Holberg International Memorial Prize worth about 520,000 euros, and secondary literature on his work exceeds 14,000 items.
- Over seven decades, Habermas's interventions shaped German public debate, influencing the 1968 student protests and discussions on asylum policy, European unity, and right-wing populism.
- He was a central figure in the 1980s Historians' Dispute, contesting Holocaust relativization and warning that the European project must empower public debate amid the AfD’s rise.
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Jürgen Habermas: the last great defender of Enlightenment reason
Authentic public intellectuals are a rare and endangered species. Alas, with the death of Jürgen Habermas yesterday, a titan of the German intellectual world and modern political philosophy, another has left us. During his life, he wasn’t simply treated as a philosopher but as a moral authority of post-war Europe. His enduring theories can be seen as a critique of the failed promise of the internet and provide valuable lessons in interpreting th…
The specter of Nazism must remain big and strong, believed the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, who passed away this weekend. His other wisdoms as well...
Mark Hunyadi, philosopher and contributor to the "Temps", who was the pupil of Jürgen Habermas in Frankfurt, celebrates the thinker of communication and above all democracy: "Habermas died in a world context in which a reality exactly inverse to the ideals that he spent his life defending prevails"He was devaluing the Frankish audience with an alert step, almost running, his imper folded on his forearm, and began to speak even before he reached …
Jürgen Habermas has shaped the political culture and academic landscape of the Federal Republic of Germany like no other intellectual. His thinking has become the state ideology of the Federal Republic. His death marks an epoch end.
On the weekend the philosopher Jürgen Habermas died. The social scientist Alex Demirovic, himself influenced by critical theory, writes about the strengths and weaknesses of Habermas' approach.
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