Jürgen Habermas

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Jürgen Habermas is a German philosopher and social theorist known for his work on communicative rationality, the public sphere, and deliberative democracy.

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instanceOf human
philosopher
political philosopher
social theorist
sociologist
awardReceived Holberg Prize
Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
Theodor W. Adorno Award
countryOfCitizenship Germany
dateOfBirth 1929-06-18
doctoralAdvisor Erich Rothacker
educatedAt University of Bonn
University of Göttingen
University of Zurich
employer Goethe University Frankfurt
Max Planck Institute for the Study of the Scientific-Technical World
New School for Social Research
University of Marburg
familyName Habermas
fieldOfWork critical theory
ethics
philosophy
political theory
social theory
givenName Jürgen
hasAcademicDiscipline philosophy of language
philosophy of law
philosophy of religion
political philosophy
social philosophy
influenced Axel Honneth
James Bohman
Maeve Cooke
Nancy Fraser
Rainer Forst
Seyla Benhabib
Thomas McCarthy
influencedBy G. W. F. Hegel
George Herbert Mead
Immanuel Kant
Karl Marx
Max Horkheimer
Max Weber
Theodor W. Adorno
languageOfWorkOrName German
movement Frankfurt School
critical theory
name Jürgen Habermas
nationality German
notableIdea communicative rationality
constitutional patriotism
deliberative democracy
discourse ethics
post-secular society
public sphere
theory of communicative action
notableWork Between Facts and Norms
Knowledge and Human Interests
Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
The Theory of Communicative Action
occupation philosopher
sociologist
university teacher
placeOfBirth Düsseldorf
Germany
North Rhine-Westphalia
religion secularism
residence Starnberg
sexOrGender male


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