Jürgen Habermas dies at age 96 following long career shaping
Influential philosopher and sociologist Juergen Habermas has died aged 96 in Starnberg, Germany. His publisher Suhrkamp confirmed the news on Saturday after seven decades of public interventions that shaped Western political consensus-building theory over his lifetime. Widely regarded as one of history's most significant thinkers since Kant due to work on communication and rationality within sociology, Habermas remains a towering figure in postwar German intellectual heritage even at age 96
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1German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has died at age 96.
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2He was a towering intellectual figure known for shaping post-war German discourse and developing theories on political consensus-building.
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