The Philosopher
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The Philosopher

Habermas and Us

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The Philosopher

Habermas and Us

About this book

Jürgen Habermas is the voice of a generation. One of the world's most influential philosophers and Germany's greatest living intellectual, he has shaped debates, both academic and public, for more than half a century. For as long as the cultural historian Philipp Felsch can remember, Habermas has been around: as an admonishing voice of reason, as the moral conscience of post-Holocaust German society, as the son of his grandparents' neighbours in Gummersbach. Is the philosopher's intellectual supremacy coming to an end today, or are his ideas gaining new relevance in the crisis times in which we now find ourselves?

To answer this question, Felsch plunged anew into Habermas's voluminous work and travelled to his home to talk with him over tea and cake about the concerns that have motivated him, the people who have influenced him and the controversies in which he has been involved. Can the ideas that the philosopher has championed throughout his career – universalism, reason, dialogue – be of any help to us now as we face the major challenges of the twenty-first century?

This compelling account of a strikingly original thinker is also a portrait of an epoch that bears his imprint and a glimpse of a future we could embrace.

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Information

Publisher
Polity
Year
2025
Print ISBN
9781509567690
eBook ISBN
9781509567706
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. An Afternoon in Starnberg
  6. In the Upside-Down World
  7. Perpetrators and Victims
  8. Farewell to Profundity
  9. The Consciousness of the Present
  10. The Centre Does Not Hold
  11. Running the Gauntlet in Frankfurt
  12. Rocket Science for a Better Society
  13. What We Must Presuppose
  14. The Stigma of the Spoken
  15. Uncanny Germany
  16. Theory of the Loss of Meaning
  17. Was That Really Necessary?
  18. Taxonomy of the Counter-Enlightenment
  19. Distance and Thymos
  20. J’accuse
  21. Back from the Future
  22. History and Memory
  23. Stirrings of Post-National Feeling
  24. The Primacy of Global Domestic Politics
  25. On War
  26. The Philosopher of the Universal Provinces
  27. Acknowledgements
  28. References
  29. Index
  30. End User License Agreement