Category Archives: Jürgen Habermas

Eduardo Mendieta, The Philosophical Animal: On Zoopoetics and Interspecies Cosmopolitanism – SUNY Press, June 2024

Eduardo Mendieta, The Philosophical Animal: On Zoopoetics and Interspecies Cosmopolitanism – SUNY Press, June 2024 – part of the SUNY Press Open Access series

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Books received – Martin, Specter, Trubetzkoy, Hoffman, Strauss (and Kojève), Lincoln

A collection of essays on Emile Benveniste; Matthew Specter, Habermas: An Intellectual Biography; Nicolai Trubetzkoy, The Legacy of Genghis Khan and Other Essays on Russia’s Identity; Marcelo Hoffman’s Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity; Leo Strauss, On Tyranny, which … Continue reading

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The Frankfurt School and Shakespeare, Garrick’s Temple, Hampton, 25 June 2022 [now taking place online]

The Frankfurt School and Shakespeare, Garrick’s Temple, Hampton, 25 June 2022 Update: due to rail strikes this is now taking place online. Registration free, but required. 09.30: Coffee (Temple Pavilion) 10.00: Chair: Jennifer Rust (Saint Louis University)  Paul Kottman (New School … Continue reading

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Young Habermas: An Interview with Roman Yos – Jonas Knatz at Journal of the History of Ideas blog

Young Habermas: An Interview with Roman Yos – Jonas Knatz at Journal of the History of Ideas blog Roman Yos is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Potsdam. His research focuses on the history of German … Continue reading

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The Foucault/Habermas debate that never was

James Schmidt has two very interesting posts about the Foucault/Habermas ‘debate that never was’ – part one and part two. Part One includes a letter from Foucault from late 1983. Part three is promised soon.

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Mendieta on Habermas and religion

To coincide with the new book he co-edited on this topic, Eduardo Mendieta discusses Habermas and religion. The centrality of religion to social theory in general and philosophy in particular explains why Jürgen Habermas has dealt with it, in both … Continue reading

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