politics
EFE
The death of thinker Jürgen Habermas this Saturday at the age of 96 leaves Germany without one of its most important intellectual references and a renowned philosopher who accompanied contemporary debates that shook his country and the world. EFE "I can confirm that Jürgen Habermas died today. The family has reported this. He died at his home," they stated to EFE from the German publisher of his books, Suhrkamp. Habermas, who received the Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences in 2003 for his career, passed away at his home in Starnberg, in southern Germany, but it was Frankfurt, in western Germany, the city that marked his biography as a thinker and philosopher.
TL;DR
- Jürgen Habermas, a prominent German thinker and philosopher, died at 96.
- He was a key figure of the second generation of the Frankfurt School.
- His influential work "Theory of Communicative Action" was published in 1982.
- German leaders, including Chancellor Friedrich Merz and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, paid tribute to his intellectual contributions.
- Habermas was recognized for his analysis of modernity and his defense of democratic discourse and human emancipation.