The German philosopher and influential thinker on modernity and democracy Jürgen Habermas died Saturday in Starnberg, Germany at the age of 96. Habermas' death was confirmed in a statement on the ...
Jürgen Habermas in an undated photo. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. The world lost one of the great thinkers of our time on March 14: the philosopher-sociologist Jürgen Habermas. His written work spanned ...
A conversation with the German theorist about the history of Western philosophy and more. In 2019, Jürgen Habermas—perhaps Europe’s most well-known living philosopher—published his long-awaited Auch ...
Among the many things that remain of the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, who died on 14 March 2026, are two things: firstly, that the crisis of capitalism – a word the social-democratic master ...
The concept of the linguistification of the sacred has certainly got Habermas into a lot of hot water. On the surface, it does look like Habermas has pronounced the obsolescence of religion in the ...
One of the most truly remarkable events in intellectual history in recent times is Jurgen Habermas’ “religious turn” in the last two decades. Those of us writing about Habermas in the 1980s and 1990s ...
The Conversation: Jürgen Habermas is a major public intellectual. What are his key ideas?
On 13 November 2023, following the terrible attack by Hamas on Israel, Jürgen Habermas and three other prominent German academics released a statement condemning the rise of antisemitism in Germany.
Jürgen Habermas is a major public intellectual. What are his key ideas?