“Streeck and I also share the view that this technocratic hollowing out of democracy is the result of a neoliberal pattern of market-deregulation policies,”
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Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas was a German philosopher and social theorist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. His work addressed communicative rationality and the public sphere. He held professorships at Heidelberg University and Goethe University Frankfurt and directed the Max Planck Institute in Starnberg.
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Born 18 June 1929 · Died 14 March 2026 · Q76357
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a layer of commonality without which we as individuals cannot exist
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2026· 17 entries
“a layer of commonality without which we as individuals cannot exist”
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“s emphasis on tradition and prejudice blinded him to the ideological operation of power. Habermas believed that Gadamer”
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“Since Hillgruber does not use the verb in the subjunctive, one does not know whether the historian has adopted the perspective of the particulars this time too”
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“s Palace of Versailles was meant to show the greatness of the French state and its King by overpowering the senses of visitors to the Palace. Habermas identifies”
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LankaeNews: Jürgen Habermas: A Towering German Philosopher : A Belated Memorial Tribute..!
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Middle East Eye: Jurgen Habermas' death ends the illusion of a universal European philosophy
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The Taipei Times: German philosopher Jurgen Habermas dies
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Dhaka Tribune: Jurgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96
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Dawn: German philosopher Jurgen Habermas passes away at 96
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Died 2026-03-14.
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“Só à luz da esfera pública é que aquilo que é consegue aparecer, tudo se torna visível a todos. Na conversação dos cidadãos entre si é que as coisas verbalizam e se configuram; na disputa dos pares entre si, os melhores se destacam e conquistam a sua essência: a imortalidade da fama.”
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“Discurso designa uma forma de comunicação deliberativa, em contextos de crítica e debate, na qual são tematizadas as pretensões de validade quando a busca do entendimento mútuo acontece em situações de conflito, e são problematizados princípios e normas de validação que passarão a ser examinados à luz de processos argumentativos.”
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“Argumentação é o tipo de discurso em que os participantes tematizam pretensões de validade controversas e procuram resolvê-las ou criticá-las com argumentos.”
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“Uma pretensão de validade pode ser manifestada por um falante diante de (no mínimo) um ouvinte.”
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“O conceito do agir comunicativo pressupõe a linguagem como médium de uma espécie de processos de entendimento ao longo dos quais os participantes, quando se referem a um mundo, manifestam de parte a parte pretensões de validade que podem ser aceitas ou contestadas.”
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“Não afirmo que os homens gostariam de agir de modo comunicativo, mas que eles são obrigados a agir desta maneira.”
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2022· 1 entry
Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (2022).
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2018· 1 entry
Awarded The Franco-German Prize for Journalism (2018).
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2016· 1 entry
CounterPunch: Jurgen Habermas, the Last Philosophe
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded Kluge Prize (2015).
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2013· 3 entries
Awarded Erasmus Prize (2013).
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Awarded The Glass of Reason (2013).
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Habermas clashed with Wolfgang Streeck, who argued the kind of European federalism espoused by Habermas was the root of the continent's crisis
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Heinrich Heine Prize (2012).
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded Viktor Frankl Award (2011).
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Benjamin E. Lippincott Award (2009).
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2007· 1 entry
Habermas was listed as the seventh most-cited author in the humanities (including the social sciences) by The Times Higher Education Guide, ahead of Max Weber and behind Erving Goffman
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded State Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia (2006).
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Holberg International Memorial Prize (2005).
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy (2004).
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Time: Jurgen Habermas
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences (2003).
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense (2001).
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Awarded Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association (2001).
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2000· 3 entries
Won Helmholtz Medal (2000).
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Held a joint seminar on problems of philosophy, right, ethics, and politics at the University of Frankfurt
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“The strength of a culture depends on its capacity to open itself up to other cultures, to integrate itself into them and to integrate them into it. It doesn't matter how many differences there may be, Habermas pointed out, everyone shares some principles. No culture tolerates the exploitation of human beings. No religion permits the murder of innocent people. No civilisation accepts violence or terror.”
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Theodor Heuss Award (1999).
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of Paris 8 University (1997).
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Karl Jaspers Prize (1995).
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the British Academy (1994).
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Habermas continued to publish extensively
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1989· 2 entries
The two philosophers did not continue, but, as Derrida described it, groups in the academy "conducted a kind of 'war', in which we ourselves never took part, either personally or directly"
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As The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society)
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1986· 2 entries
Awarded Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (1986).
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Received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research
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1985· 2 entries
Won Wilhelm Leuschner Medal (1985).
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Awarded Geschwister-Scholl-Preis (1985).
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1984).
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1983· 1 entry
Habermas returned to his chair at Frankfurt
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1981· 1 entry
“market is the most important example of a norm-free regulation of cooperative contexts”
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Theodor W. Adorno Award (1980).
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded Sigmund Freud Prize (1976).
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1974· 1 entry
Although he came to reject much of Habermas's thought
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1973· 2 entries
Awarded Hegel Prize (1973).
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Habermas noted "the incompatibility of the imperatives that rule the capitalistic economic system with a democratic process for forming the public will"
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1971· 1 entry
Accepted the position of co-director (alongside Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker) of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of the Scientific and Technical World in Starnberg, near Munich, and worked there until 1983, tw
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1969· 1 entry
Habermas, who had earlier declined the directorship of the Institute for Social Research, recommended Leszek Kołakowski to take up the role in the following year
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1964· 1 entry
Strongly supported by Adorno, Habermas returned to Frankfurt to take over Horkheimer's chair in philosophy and sociology, and reconciled with Horkheimer, who provided a glowing reference for him to the American Jewish Co
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1961· 3 entries
About the methodology of the social sciences
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Habermas commented: "Today I value being considered a Marxist"
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Habermas became a Privatdozent in Marburg, and—in a move that was highly unusual for the German academic scene of that time—he was offered the position of "extraordinary professor" (professor without chair) of philosophy
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1960· 1 entry
And engaged in his debate with Habermas over the possibility of transcending history and culture to find a truly objective position from which to critique society
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1958· 1 entry
And made unacceptable demands for revision of his dissertation
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1956· 1 entry
Habermas became Theodor W
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1929· 1 entry
Born 1929-06-18.
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