Teori hermeneutik jurgen habermas biography

Jürgen Habermas (born June 18, , Düsseldorf, Germany) is widely regarded as one of the most important European philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century, as well as the continent’s leading contemporary public intellectual.

A highly influential social and political thinker, Habermas is generally identified with critical social theory, a Marxist inspired movement that emerged in the s at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany—also known as “the Frankfurt School.” Habermas belongs to the second generation of the Frankfurt School, following first-generation and founding figures such as Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, and Herbert Marcuse.

Habermas&#;s theoretical system is devoted to revealing the possibilities of reason, emancipation, and rational-critical communication latent in modern institutions and in the human capacity to deliberate and pursue rational interests—an idea that Habermas popularized as “communicative rationality.”

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