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Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96
Jürgen Habermas shaped post-war European thought with his theory of communicative action and influenced political debate for over seven decades, publishing more than 14,000 works.
- Publisher Suhrkamp said on Saturday that Jürgen Habermas, the German philosopher and sociologist, died in Starnberg, near Munich, at age 96.
- Born on June 18, 1929 in Dusseldorf, Jürgen Habermas grew up in Gummersbach and earned a doctorate in 1954 before joining the University of Frankfurt's Institute for Social Research under Theodor W. Adorno.
- His major works include The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and the two-volume Theory of Communicative Action, for which he received the 2007 Holberg International Memorial Prize worth about 520,000 euros, and secondary literature on his work exceeds 14,000 items.
- Over seven decades, Habermas's interventions shaped German public debate, influencing the 1968 student protests and discussions on asylum policy, European unity, and right-wing populism.
- He was a central figure in the 1980s Historians' Dispute, contesting Holocaust relativization and warning that the European project must empower public debate amid the AfD’s rise.
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The philosopher and sociologist Jürgen Habermas is dead. According to Suhrkamp Verlag, he died at the age of 96 in Starnberg. Habermas was one of the most important thinkers of the present - he shaped intellectual debates over decades.
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