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Jürgen Habermas
German social theorist and philosopher (born 1929)
Jürgen Habermas (, ;[2]German:[ˈjʏʁɡn̩ˈhaːbɐmaːs]ⓘ;[3][4] born 18 June 1929) is a German philosopher and social theorist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. His work addresses communicative rationality and the public sphere.
Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas's work focuses on the foundations of epistemology and social theory, the analysis of advanced capitalism and democracy, the rule of law in a critical social-evolutionary context, albeit within the confines of the natural law tradition,[5] and contemporary politics, particularly German politics. Habermas's theoretical system is devoted to revealing the possibility of reason, emancipation, and rational-critical communication latent in modern institutions and in the human capacity to deliberate and pursue rational interests. Habermas is known for his work on the phenomenon of modernity,[6] particularly with respect to the discussions of rationalization originally set f
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Birth: Jürgen Habermas was born on June 18, 1929. He is still living.
Early Life: Habermas was born in Dusseldorf, Germany and grew up in the postwar era. He was in his early teens during World War II and was profoundly affected by the war. He had served in the Hitler Youth and had been sent to defend the western front during the final months of the war. Following the Nuremberg Trials, Habermas had a political awakening in which he realized the depth of Germany’s moral and political failure. This realization had a lasting impact on his philosophy in which he was strongly against such politically criminal behavior.
Education: Habermas studied at the University of Gottingen and the University of Bonn. He earned a doctorate degree in philosophy from the University of Bonn in 1954 with a dissertation written on the conflict between the absolute and history in Schelling’s thought. He then went on to study philosophy and sociology at the Institute for Social Research under critical theorists Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno and is considered a member of the
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Jürgen Habermas (born June 18, 1929, Düsseldorf, Germany) is widely regarded as one of the most important European philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century, as well as the continent’s leading contemporary public intellectual. A highly influential social and political thinker, Habermas is generally identified with critical social theory, a Marxist inspired movement that emerged in the 1920s at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany—also known as “the Frankfurt School.” Habermas belongs to the second generation of the Frankfurt School, following first-generation and founding figures such as Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, and Herbert Marcuse. Habermas’s theoretical system is devoted to revealing the possibilities of reason, emancipation, and rational-critical communication latent in modern institutions and in the human capacity to deliberate and pursue rational interests—an idea that Habermas popularized as “communicative rationality.”
In addition to his many scholarly contributions, Habermas has embraced the role of a public intellectual. Thi
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