Jürgen Habermas: a philosopher whose hopes for a better future are more important than ever
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“It is impossible to capture seven decades of formidable intellect, wrapped into some 14,000 books and articles, in less than a thousand words.”
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“German philosopher Jürgen Habermas staked his career on the power of dialogue and deliberation.”
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“Habermas, who died on March 14 at the age of 96, was among the greatest thinkers of our time.”
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“Habermas was born in Düsseldorf in 1929.”
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“He escaped conscription to the Wehrmacht by a whisker.”
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“His later realization that, as a child, he had been enveloped by 'a politically criminal system' propelled him into a lifelong scholarly, political and personal campaign to rescue democracy and restore the future.”
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“Habermas led the way with sweeping interdisciplinary reach: historical understanding, geographical imagination, sociological insight, grasp of legal theory, sustained engagement with ethics, aesthetics, psychology, epistemology, theology and more.”
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“His philosophy – practical, perhaps pragmatic – was his politics.”
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“The formation, functioning and fragility of a public sphere – Öffentlichkeit – mediating between states and civil societies, promising an alternative to the authoritarian, totalitarian regimes he eschewed.”
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“The first, the Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1962) finds the scope for informed, inclusive, critical debate compromised by the intrusion of calculative, commercial and bureaucratic interests.”
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“A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics (2022) takes on the algorithms driving social media.”
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“His journalistic output and other public interventions were equally prodigious. Consider, for example, some 12 volumes of talks, speeches and commentary gathered in his Kleine Politische Schriften.”
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“Habermas was, in fact, acutely aware that the capacity for deliberative democracy can never be taken for granted.”
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“His final three-volume project – Also a History of Philosophy – is described as 'a work of willed optimism'.”
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“A collection of biographical conversations – Things Needed to Get Better – Habermas still pins his hopes on critical dialogue and reasoned debate.”
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“There is, it must be said, a well-developed feminist critique – and re-visioning – of Habermas’ core ideas.”
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“Habermas mounted a sustained effort to make the public sphere work.”
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