For decades, he has been regarded as one of the most important public intellectuals, if not the most important: Jürgen ...

CounterPunch editor Jeff St. Clair kindly sent me a recent interview with Jurgen Habermas in Eurozine (Michael Foessel and Jurgen Habermas, “Critique and communication: Philosophy’s missions,” October ...

Jürgen Habermas, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Frankfurt, is the author of such acclaimed works in philosophy and social theory as The Theory of Communicative Action and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A selected review of the 1981 work 'Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns' (Theory of Communicative Action) by the German sociologist Jürgen ...

Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees / Refuge: Revue canadienne sur les réfugiés, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Spring 2010), pp. 24-35 (12 pages) Drawing on Habermas’s notion of discourse ethics and agonistic ...

His rationalist system of social thought is the most elaborate and methodical in the contemporary world, which is why he is often cited as a sage by people who would rather chew glass than read his ...

On October 14, 2001, the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas stepped up to the lectern at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt to deliver a short address called “Faith and Knowledge.” The occasion was his ...

Most volumes by Jürgen Habermas appearing in English over the past decade have consisted of papers and lectures building on the theory of communicative action and social change in his earlier work, or ...

In his seminal essay, “The axial age in global history: cultural crystallization and societal transformation in R. Bellah and H. Joas. (Eds.). The Axial Age and Its Consequences,” Bjorn Wittrock (2012 ...

Juergen Habermas and Asef Bayat are towering global thinkers. Their books have been translated into multiple languages and are taught in universities throughout the world. Habermas is part of the ...