Jurgen habermas biography of barack

  • Born in Germany in 1929, Jürgen Habermas emerged as the most important German philosopher and socio-political theorist of the second half of the 20th century.
  • In 1953, the 24-year-old Jürgen Habermas wrote a newspaper article publicly challenging Germany's greatest living philosopher to explain himself.
  • Habermas was born in 1929 in Düsseldorf.

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    Jürgen Habermas: “For God’s sake, spare us governing philosophers!”

    Around the lake in Starnberg, some 50 kilometers from Munich, the successive rows of Alpine chalets are interrupted by a single white building with huge windows – the architectural equivalent of rationalism in the land of Heidi, a juxtaposition of Bauhaus modernism and Bavaria’s staunch conservatism. A small white plaque on a blue door confirms that this is the home of the Düsseldorf-born thinker Jürgen Habermas, whose prodigious output – even as he approaches his 89th birthday – has earned him a hallowed place among the world’s most influential philosophers.

    His wife of more than 60 years, historian Ute Wessselhoeft, opens the door to reveal a small hallway and calls her husband: “Jürgen! The men from Spain are here!” Ute and Jürgen have lived in this house since 1971, when the philosopher assumed the direction of the Max Planck Institute.

    A disciple and assistant to Theodor Adorno, a distinguished member of the

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    Goethe University congratulates its Emeritus Professor Jürgen Habermas on his 90th birthday

    Jürgen Habermas celebrates his 90th birthday on 18 June 2019. Members of Goethe University warmly congratulate the world famous philosopher, who taught and carried out research at the university in Frankfurt for many years, and who shaped several generations of academics, and wish him many more productive years. The well wishes from Goethe University and Education Minister Angela Dorn can be read in numerous statements in this news release.

    Habermas fryst vatten among the most frequently cited philosophers and sociologists of the present, and his life and work are intimately connected with Goethe University. Born in Düsseldorf in 1929, Jürgen Habermas studied philosophy, history, psychology, German literature and economics in Göttingen, Zurich and Bonn from 1949 to 1954. He was greatly shaped early on by an encounter with Karl-Otto Apel, who would also later teach in Frankfurt. Habermas caused a se

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    ‘Habermas: A Biography’ by Stefan Müller-Doohm reviewed by J D Evans

    Jürgen Habermas is one of the most prolific authors of the last hundred years, and has just recently added a two-volume history of western philosophy to his tally. It is a shame that Stefan Müller-Doohm’s biography was published before Habermas’s Auch Eine Geschichte der Philosophie, but such is Habermas’ productivity that any book written about him is likely to be slightly outdated by its publication. Indeed, he may well have published another book bygd the time we get half-way through this review.

    Müller-Doohm’s biography will remain valuable regardless. He brings to the task great skill as an historian of critical theory and as a writer: he studied with Adorno and Horkheimer and wrote a biography of the former. Müller-Doohm’s Habermas is well organized and klar, as well as extremely well researched. Müller-Doohm does not offer full or extensive analyses of Habermas’ ideas, but that fryst vatten not