Jurgen Habermas
Jurgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermasis a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his theories on communicative rationality and the public sphere. Global polls consistently find that Habermas is widely recognized as one of the world's leading intellectuals...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth18 June 1929
CountryGermany
Jurgen Habermas quotes about
affected estimate german-philosopher narrow nor
In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions.
fighting political territory
Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists
cities manhattan three
Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.
icons target manhattan
What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation.
clever government order
The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.
fighting israel people
Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel. These people often fight in a decentralized manner in small, autonomous units, too.
war years misery
The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War
fundamentals distinction starting
I take as my fundamental starting point the fundamental distinction between work and interaction
terror-attacks impact historical
If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact.
acting speech claims
I shall develop the thesis that anyone acting communicatively must, in performing any speech act, raise universal validity claims and suppose that they can be vindicated.
political found afghanistan
Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis.
fall court-judges judging
Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.
essence terrorism danger
The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.
philosophy mean self
Science can only be comprehended epistemologically , which means as one category of possible knowledge , as long as knowledge is not equated either effusively with the absolute knowledge of a great philosophy or blindly with scientistic self-understanding of the actual business of research.