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Habermas: an Intellectual bIograpHy This book follows postwar Germany’s leading philosopher and social thinker, Jürgen Habermas, ...

“This is an original work of the first importance both for our understanding of Habermas – one of the most important European ph ...

Habermas: an Intellectual biography Matthew G. Specter ...

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi, Dubai, Tokyo Cambridg ...

For three great teachers – Tom de Zengotita, Frank Moretti, and Roman Zwarycz. ...

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vii contents acknowledgments page ix Introduction 1 1 the making of a ‘58er: Habermas’s search for a method 27 2 Habermas as syn ...

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ix The intellectual, professional, and moral support of friends and colleagues on both sides of the Atlantic over nearly a decad ...

x acknowledgments 2004–05 Dr. Richard M. Hunt Fellowship for German History, Politics, Culture and Society which I held at the M ...

acknowledgments xi the warm welcome he extended me at the Max Planck Institute in 2004–05 and for several very helpful lunchtime ...

xii acknowledgments This book is dedicated to the three extraordinary teachers who introduced me to Western philosophy and socia ...

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1 Introduction Jürgen Habermas, world-renowned as a social theorist, philoso- pher, and leading European public intellectual for ...

2 Habermas: An intellectual biography Germany in the West. As such, his thought is part of the dramatic intellectual reconstruct ...

Introduction 3 ideal West that did not yet exist – a utopia based on an idealized portrait of Enlightenment Europe as the space ...

4 Habermas: An intellectual biography generations in West Germany most responsible for the trans- formations of its political cu ...