German philosopher and sociologist Jürgen Habermas has died at the age of 96. This was reported by the Suhrkamp publishing house. According to their data, the scholar died today in the Bavarian city of Starnberg, writes Bild.
Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas was considered one of the most influential thinkers of modern Germany and for decades participated in key social and political discussions.
He was a representative of the second generation of the Frankfurt School and one of the main theorists of the so-called critical theory. He gained the most fame for his work "The Theory of Communicative Action," published in 1981, in which he developed ideas about the role of rational dialogue in a democratic society.
Habermas taught at several universities in Germany and the USA, and his works influenced philosophy, sociology, and political theory in the second half of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
In the last years of his life, Habermas repeatedly criticized the West's policy aimed at decisively resisting Putin in Ukraine. Already in April 2022, he supported Chancellor Olaf Scholz's cautious stance on the issue of arms supplies to Ukraine. Later, he also joined calls not to transfer heavy weaponry to Kyiv. Instead, he considered it necessary to negotiate with Russia.
At the same time, in December 2020, as part of the "100xSolidarität" solidarity project for political prisoners by the Evangelical Church in Germany and the German Society for East European Studies (DGO), in cooperation with the Belarusian human rights organization "Viasna," Jürgen Habermas became the "godfather" of political prisoner Katsiaryna Andreeva, who remains in a penal colony to this day.
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