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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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- An Afternoon in Starnberg
- In the Upside-Down World
- Perpetrators and Victims
- Farewell to Profundity
- The Consciousness of the Present
- The Centre Does Not Hold
- Running the Gauntlet in Frankfurt
- Rocket Science for a Better Society
- What We Must Presuppose
- The Stigma of the Spoken
- Uncanny Germany
- Theory of the Loss of Meaning
- Was That Really Necessary?
- Taxonomy of the Counter-Enlightenment
- Distance and Thymos
- J’accuse
- Back from the Future
- History and Memory
- Stirrings of Post-National Feeling
- The Primacy of Global Domestic Politics
- On War
- The Philosopher of the Universal Provinces
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Index
- End User License Agreement