Jürgen Habermas

Jürgen Habermas, born in 1929 and died in 2026, was one of the leading social theorists and philosophers of the post-Second World War period in Germany, Europe and the United States. He was a prolific journalist and a public intellectual at the forefront of the liberalization of German political culture, and he is often labelled a second-generation Frankfurt School theorist. His habilitation dissertation, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, introduced his influential concept of the public sphere. His major projects were a social theory, a discourse ethics of morality, and a discourse theory of law and democracy, and he also wrote on national identity, international law and religion.