Habermass Jürgen Summary
Jürgen Habermas
Born: June 18th 1929 (85 years) in Düsseldorf Germany
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Parents were middle class and very traditional.
● As a child he had trouble forming social relationships due to a cleft palate. This also made speaking extremely difficult for him.
● Jürgen said that his speech disability made him think about communication in a very different way
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Attended high school in Gummersbach (near Cologne)
● His father was a supporter of the Nazi party and Habermas himself was a member of the Hitler Jugend movement
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WW II affected Jürgen profoundly
After the war he became a radical anti-fascist and a
Marxist
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Studied at the universities in Göttingen and Bonn
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Earned a doctorate in philosophy from Bonn in 1954
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From 1956 onward studied sociology & philosophy in
Frankfurt (Goethe University)
Studied under Marx Horkheimer & Theodor Adorno
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Finished his studies at the University of Marburg under the guidance of Wolfgang Abendroth
His work is a associated with the Frankfurt School of thought After reading George Lukács, Habermas started to read more Marxist literature and became a supporter of left-wing politics
He actually wrote an Marxist preface in to his allready published dissertation due to his new found love of Marx
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The Founder of the Frankfurt School, Mark
Horkheimer, thought that Habermas was too radical, and refused to inspect the second dissertation from Habermas (The Structural
Transformation of the Public Sphere)
Habermas has won 21 prizes during his career
Habermas's Interests
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Discourse Theory
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Public Sphere
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Reason
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Truth and Knowledge
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Morality, Politics & Law
Most notable works
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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
(1962)
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Toward a Rational Society (1967)
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Legitimation Crisis (1975)
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The Theory of Communicative Action (1981)
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The Philosophical Discourse of
Born: June 18th 1929 (85 years) in Düsseldorf Germany
●
Parents were middle class and very traditional.
● As a child he had trouble forming social relationships due to a cleft palate. This also made speaking extremely difficult for him.
● Jürgen said that his speech disability made him think about communication in a very different way
●
Attended high school in Gummersbach (near Cologne)
● His father was a supporter of the Nazi party and Habermas himself was a member of the Hitler Jugend movement
!
●
●
WW II affected Jürgen profoundly
After the war he became a radical anti-fascist and a
Marxist
●
Studied at the universities in Göttingen and Bonn
●
Earned a doctorate in philosophy from Bonn in 1954
●
●
From 1956 onward studied sociology & philosophy in
Frankfurt (Goethe University)
Studied under Marx Horkheimer & Theodor Adorno
●
●
●
●
Finished his studies at the University of Marburg under the guidance of Wolfgang Abendroth
His work is a associated with the Frankfurt School of thought After reading George Lukács, Habermas started to read more Marxist literature and became a supporter of left-wing politics
He actually wrote an Marxist preface in to his allready published dissertation due to his new found love of Marx
●
●
The Founder of the Frankfurt School, Mark
Horkheimer, thought that Habermas was too radical, and refused to inspect the second dissertation from Habermas (The Structural
Transformation of the Public Sphere)
Habermas has won 21 prizes during his career
Habermas's Interests
●
Discourse Theory
●
Public Sphere
●
Reason
●
Truth and Knowledge
●
Morality, Politics & Law
Most notable works
●
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
(1962)
●
Toward a Rational Society (1967)
●
Legitimation Crisis (1975)
●
The Theory of Communicative Action (1981)
●
The Philosophical Discourse of