Among the many things that remain of the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, who died on 14 March 2026, are two things: firstly, that the crisis of capitalism – a word the social-democratic master ...

A teenager in Nazi Germany, Habermas was a member of the Hitler Youth though avoided being drafted into the Wehrmacht when armistice was called. Studying in Germany and Switzerland after the war, he ...

Considered the greatest and most influential thinker since the end of World War II, his work rethinks the Enlightenment as an ...

Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger developed quantum theory’s wave equation, which describes quantum systems as waves that ...

Jüergen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world's most influential ...

He was regarded as one of Germany's most influential contemporary philosophers. Jürgen Habermas has died in the Bavarian ...

Why facts backfire in political debates, and what psychology says works to bridge divides and prevent radicalization.

Jürgen Habermas, who has died aged 96, was the most important German philosopher of the post-war era, though one whose abstruse and cumbersome style meant that he was never an easy read.

The theory of action underlying Immanuel Kant's ethical theory is the subject of this book. What 'maxims' are, and how we act on maxims, are explained here in light of both the historical context of ...

Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas was a world-renowned thinker on modernity and democracy who helped shape German post-war and post-reunification political discourse.

Juergen Habermas, one of Germany's most influential philosophers and sociologists, died at the age of 96 in the town of Starnberg in the southern German state of Bavaria on Saturday, German media ...