A conversation with the German theorist about the history of Western philosophy and more.

In 1964 Habermas took over from Max Horkheimer as Professor of Philosophy and Sociology, and engaged in teaching and research at the Goethe University from 1964-1971, 1975-1982 and 1983-1994.

Habermas's time with the "unholy family of critical theory," as Ralf Dahrendorf once put it, was fruitful, but unhappy. Dahrendorf himself, on arrival for a brief stint as Horkheimer's assistant, was ...

Even as he worked under Adorno’s tutelage, Habermas maintained his intellectual independence. For him, the Frankfurt School never constituted a closed research agenda or shared orthodoxy. Müller-Doohm ...

Adorno and Horkheimer were influential German intellectuals who developed what came to be known as the “Frankfurt School” of critical theory. Habermas in 2014. Wikimedia Commons ...

According to German television (DW), Habermas is a pioneer of a new critical discourse in philosophy and politics and has been the most prominent voice in the cultural scene in Germany for more ...

The Habermas corpus is vast, ... Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, he could not accept their pessimistic conclusion that “reason” had been consumed in the flames of the holocaust, ...

The philosophers of Germany — Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Erich Fromm — ended up being allies with the philosophers of France — Michel Foucault, Jean-François Lyotard, Jacques Derrida ...