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

Jürgen Habermas, one of Germany’s most influential modern philosophers and a towering figure in European intellectual life, ...

One the most influential thinkers in post-war Germany, Jürgen Habermas linked philosophy and political action throughout his ...

The chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference praised the late philosopher Jürgen Habermas’ landmark 2004 dialogue with the future Pope Benedict XVI on faith and reason.

Philosopher Immanuel Kant questioned the idea that war ennobles humanity. He pointed to ancient Greek wisdom that war creates more suffering than it kills. Kant argued that war's impact goes beyond ...

Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas was a world-renowned thinker on modernity and democracy who helped shape ...

Wolfram Eilenberger, editor of “Philosophie Magazin,” in Berlin, savors the disciplinary boom. Philosophic discourse, he argues, should be conducted not only on university campuses but in the public ...

The influential German philosopher and sociologist Jürgen Habermas has died at the age of 96, his publisher has said.

Best known for his theory of political consensus-building, he shaped post-war Germany’s discourse more than any peer.

Jüergen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world's most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was ...

German philosopher Juergen Habermas, one of the world's most influential thinkers and a leading voice in shaping postwar German thought, has died at age 96.