The philosopher, who has died aged 96, was often caricatured as a consensus-seeking liberal. But his belief in the need for shared understanding had a radical underpinning, says German philosopher Eva ...

Philosopher Jürgen Habermas passed away this weekend at his home in Starnberg. Goethe University mourns the loss of its ...

He was regarded as one of Germany's most influential contemporary philosophers. Jürgen Habermas has died in the Bavarian ...

By the time he died last week at the age of 96, Jürgen Habermas had been teaching the Germans how not to be beastly for some ...

In dozens of books, he rejected postmodern cynicism about truth and reason, arguing that rational communication was the best ...

Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas was a world-renowned thinker on modernity and democracy who helped shape ...

The philosophy of Jürgen Habermas, who died aged ninety-six on Saturday, set out to offer an answer. His work represented the ...

This week. the House of Representatives of New Hampshire, one of the states that pioneered public education, passed on a party-line vote yet another bill limiting what teachers can teach. Many such ...

Born in June 1929 in Düsseldorf, Habermas grew up under Nazi rule and was briefly enrolled in the Hitler Youth.

Considered the greatest and most influential thinker since the end of World War II, his work rethinks the Enlightenment as an ...

A teenager in Nazi Germany, Habermas was a member of the Hitler Youth though avoided being drafted into the Wehrmacht when ...

Juergen Habermas, renowned German philosopher, has died at age 96 in Starnberg, Germany, as confirmed by publisher Suhrkamp.