The Guardian view on the legacy of Jürgen Habermas: philosophical sustenance for illiberal times | Editorial

In an age of demagogues and big tech, the work of one of Germany’s greatest scholars points the way to a new politics of the human In his later years, Jürgen Habermas was sometimes described as “the last European” – a reference to his passionate commitment to the ideals of the European Union (although not always its modern reality). The great German philosopher was also the last surviving exemplar of a generation of postwar intellectuals formed by the experience of the second world war. Like ...

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