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

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Anoush Ganjipour, a French-Iranian dual national philosopher, is a globally recognized authority in Islamic political thought ...

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

The critics of “performative politics” misunderstand something fundamental: Democracy survives only when citizens perform it.

We take you to the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there. For nine minutes every day, we take you back in time and all over the world, to examine wars, coups, ...

Philosopher and social theorist who advocated a new direction for German thought after the horrors of Nazi rule ...

Jürgen Habermas, who has died aged 96, was the most important German philosopher of the post-war era, though one whose abstruse and cumbersome style meant that he was never an easy read.

The German philosopher reshaped how we understand public debate, democracy and the power of rational conversation ...

The late Leslie Epstein, son and nephew of Julius and Philip respectively, tells Louis Harnett O’Meara about the twins’ hijinks and the challenges involved in the making of an all-time classic. An ...