As medium for reaching understanding, speech acts serve: a) to establish and renew interpersonal relations, whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the world of legitimate social orders; b) to represent states and events, whereby the speaker… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources. — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis. — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems. — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
“For the normative self-understanding of modernity, Christianity has functioned as more than just a precursor or catalyst. Universalistic egalitarianism, from which sprang the ideals… — Jürgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel.… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
“Today, the language of the market penetrates every pore and forces every interpersonal relation into the schema of individual preference.” — Jürgen Habermas Copy Share Image
The usage of the words "public" and "public sphere" betrays a multiplicity of concurrent meanings. Their origins go back to various historical phases and,… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
“Only one who takes over his own life history can see in it the realization of his self. Responsibility to take over one's own… — Jürgen Habermas Copy Share Image
“[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty] One small autobiographical piece by Rorty bears the title 'Wild Orchids and Trotsky.' In it,… — Jürgen Habermas Copy Share Image
After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests. — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Positivism stands or falls with the principle of scientism, that is that the meaning of knowledge is defined by what the sciences do and… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
![“[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty] One small autobiographical piece by Rorty bears the title 'Wild Orchids and Trotsky.' In it, Rorty describes how as a youth he ambled around the blooming hillside in north-west New Jersey, and breathed in the stunning odour of…” quote by Jürgen Habermas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a33/jurgen-habermas-12339_atheism_j-rgen-habermas-obituary-to-friend-and-p_673632.jpg)
