The German philosopher and sociologist Jürgen Habermas challenged social science by suggesting that human beings are capable of rationality and under some conditions are able to communicate with one another successfully; the barriers preventing...

Generally accepted to be the leader of the second generation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, Jürgen Habermas is a prominent German public intellectual whose interests range from sociology to political science. Indeed, Habermas...

The German philosopher and sociologist Jürgen Habermas (born 1929) challenged social science by suggesting that despite appearances to the contrary, human beings are capable of rationality and under some conditions are able to communicate with one...

Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929) was Germany's foremost social theorist and philosopher in the second half of the twentieth century. Born in Düsseldorf, Germany, on June 18, Habermas is the leading representative of the second generation...

Jürgen Habermas has been the most prolific and influential representative of the second generation of the Frankfurt School. He has not only continued the theoretical tradition of his teachers Adorno and Horkheimer and his friend Marcuse, but also...

Jürgen Habermas (IPA: [ˈjʏʁgən ˈhaːbɐmaːs]; born June 18, 1929) is a German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and American pragmatism. He is best known for his work on the concept of the public sphere, which he...

Habeimasi or Ha shi (Mr Ha) ' are the names by which the writings of contemporary German philosopher and sociologist Jiirgen Habermas have come to be known and discussed in mainland Chinese scholarship. In intellectual genealogy, Habermas is most frequently associated with the second...

Many moral theories have an epistemic orientation: they are preoccupied with uncovering moral truths. This often leads to a quest for moral foundations. By contrast, a practical orientation is attentive first and foremost to the aims of our moral practices--what we are doing...

In the following interview originally conducted in November, 1973, Habermas discusses the place of socio-political, Marxist, and psychoanalytic theories in his own linguistic and epistemological philosophy, addressing various critiques of his historical materialist analysis.

In the review below, Dews detects a change in Habermas's discourse ethics in Faktizität und Geltung, offering a thematic analysis of the philosophical principles addressed in the book.

In the following review of a festschrift dedicated to Habermas and Postmetaphysical Thinking, Fjelstad examines the "communicative implications" of Habermas's notion of "the self-hood of the individual" in the philosopher's book.