Jürgen Habermas’s European Illusion

Source: Jacobin · Bias: Far Left

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By the time he died this past Saturday at age ninety-six, Jürgen Habermas had become something of a reviled figure for much of the Left. His liberalism, centered on a belief in rationality, was perceived as an abandonment of the more radical impulses of the Frankfurt School — Sam Moyn, for example, wrote that Habermas’s […]

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Jürgen Habermas’s European Illusion

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By the time he died this past Saturday at age ninety-six, Jürgen Habermas had become something of a reviled figure for much of the Left. His liberalism, centered on a belief in rationality, was perceived as an abandonment of the more radical impulses of the Frankfurt School — Sam Moyn, for example, wrote that Habermas’s […]