The Philosopher

Habermas and Us
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5095-6769-0
Verlag: Wiley John + Sons

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 390 g

Jürgen Habermas is the voice of a generation. One of the world’s most influential philosophers and Germany’s greatest living intellectual, he has shaped debates, both academic and public, for more than half a century. For as long as the cultural historian Philipp Felsch can remember, Habermas has been around: as an admonishing voice of reason, as the moral conscience of post-Holocaust German society, as the son of his grandparents’ neighbours in Gummersbach. Is the philosopher's intellectual supremacy coming to an end today, or are his ideas gaining new relevance in the crisis times in which we now find ourselves?

To answer this question, Felsch plunged anew into Habermas’s voluminous work and travelled to his home to talk with him over tea and cake about the concerns that have motivated him, the people who have influenced him and the controversies in which he has been involved. Can the ideas that the philosopher has championed throughout his career – universalism, reason, dialogue – be of any help to us now as we face the major challenges of the twenty-first century?

This compelling account of a strikingly original thinker is also a portrait of an epoch that bears his imprint and a glimpse of a future we could embrace.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Felsch, Philipp

Weitere Mitwirkende

Crawford, Tony

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

An Afternoon in Starnberg

In the Upside-down World
Perpetrators and Victims
Farewell to Profundity

The Consciousness of the Present

The Centre Does Not Hold
Running the Gauntlet in Frankfurt

Rocket Science for a Better Society

What We Must Presuppose

The Stigma of the Spoken
Uncanny Germany

Theory of the Loss of Meaning
Was That Really Necessary?

Taxonomy of the Counter-Enlightenment

Distance and Thymos
J’accuse

Back from the Future

History and Memory

Stirrings of Postnational Feeling
The Primacy of Global Domestic Politics
On War

The Philosopher of the Universal Provinces

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Philipp Felsch is Professor of Cultural History at Humboldt University, Berlin.

Translated by Tony Crawford.