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Habermas’s work always differed from that of his Frankfurt School mentors in that his deep concern for individual freedom was always wedded to an interest in the fate of democratic institutions and in the prospects for the renewal of democratic politics.
James Gordon Finlayson • Habermas: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
If you look at (German philosopher Jürgen) Habermas’ ideal speech community, everyone has to be equals, and everyone has to have good intentions. This is the sense of an ideal public speech that then at its best leads to moral truths and legal legitimacy. But he realizes in his later works, Between Facts and Norms, that democracy is messy and you’r... See more
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Habermas also adopts the Frankfurt School’s rather pessimistic analysis that monopoly capitalism and welfare-state liberalism in the United States led ultimately to a diminution of human freedom, and to the hollowing out of democratic politics, and did not provide a fruitful alternative to the fragile social order of Weimar Germany that capitulated
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