History of ideas as lived experience   I have just learned of the death of the German philosopher and sociologist Jürgen ...

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The great German philosopher both robustly defended the public sphere—and for seven decades never stopped participating in it ...

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In 1963, Hannah Arendt provided us with the term “the banality of evil.” Adolf Eichmann and other high-ranking Nazi officials had been bureaucrats thoughtlessly complying with mass extermination ...

By the time he died last week at the age of 96, Jürgen Habermas had been teaching the Germans how not to be beastly for some 70 years. Yet he owed his life to a Nazi – his own father.

On March 14, 2026, Jürgen Habermas passed away in Starnberg at the age of 96. With his death, we have lost a thinker who ...

On the death of the philosopher who served as director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of the Scientific-Technical World from 1971 to 1981On ...

The greatest democratic theorist of the postwar era leaves behind a world dismantling everything he defended. Philosophically ...

Habermas gave us concepts of the public sphere, communicative action, and deliberative democracy, which are now embedded in ...