Jürgen Habermas Has Died. Will Democratic Optimism Die With Him?
Last fall, I received an offer I found to be irresistible. Polity Books was preparing two new volumes on Jürgen Habermas, I was told, both of which featured his collaboration, and would I like to interview him for this magazine? I certainly would. Habermas ha…
Habermass second great work, at least judged by the number of critiques and graduate-school syllabi it inspired, was 1981s Theory of Communicative Action, in which he once again sought to find the… [+2406 chars]