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Jürgen Habermas – Biographic Notes
by Thomas Gregersen
1929 Born June 18 in Düsserdorf, Germany
Mother: Grete Habermas (1894-1983)
Father: Ernest Habermas (1891-1972)
Brother: Hans-Joachim Habermas (1925- )
Sister: Anja Habermas (1937- )
1929-48 Brought up in Gummersbach, where his father was director
of the Bureau of Trade and Industry
1944 Member of the Hitler Youth
1949-54 Student at universities in Göttingen (1949/50), Zurich (1950/51)
and Bonn (1951-54)
1953 Writes a famous article, which criticizes Martin Heidegger’s
Nazi affiliation
1954 Ph.D. dissertation on Schelling, Bonn University
1952-56 Free-lance journalist at ”Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”
and ”Handelsblatt”
1955 Reads Max Horkheimer & Theodor Adorno’s Dialektik der
Aufklärung”
Marries Ute Wesselhoeft
1956-61 Residence in Frankfurt am Main
1956-59 Assistant for Theodor W. Adorno, Institute for Social
Research, Frankfurt
1956 First child: Tilmann Habermas
1957-58 Active participation in the antinuclear movement
1959 Becomes an active member of the social democratic student
movement
Departure from Institute for Social Research after
criticism from its director, Max Horkheimer
Second child: Rebekka Habermas
1961 Habilitation at Marburg University (with Wolfgang
Abendroth):”Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit”
Associate professor at Marburg University
1962 Professor of philosophy at Heidelberg University
(aften recommentations from Hans-Georg Gadamer)
Critique of positivism
1964 Professor of philosophy and sociology, Institute for Social
Research, Frankfurt (succeeds Horkheimer)
1964-71 Residence in Steinbach am Taunus, Hessen
1966 Conference on the Vietnam War (with Herbert Marcuse),
Frankfurt
1967 Warns the student movement against ”Left Fascism”
(Rudi Dutschke)
Third child: Judith Habermas
1968 "Erkenntnis und Interesse"
1970 Essays on hermeneutic and philosophy of language
(Habermas’ ”linguistic turn”)
1971 Departure from Goethe University, Frankfurt, in wake of
servere criticism from the Marxist student movement
The Christian Gauss Lectures, Princeton University
1971-81 Director for Max Plack Institute, Starnberg
(with Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker)
1971-83 Residence in Starnberg, Bayern
1973 "Legitimationsprobleme im Spätkapitalismus"
1974 Hegel Prize, Stuttgart
Critique of system theory (Luhmann) and essays on
theories of social evolution
1975-82 Guest professor at Goethe University, Frankfurt
1977 Critique of ”Beruftsverbot” and the authoritarian response
to terrorism (”The German Autumn”)
1980 Critique of postmodernism and neo-conservatism
Adorno-prize, Frankfurt
1981 "Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns" on sociological theory
1983 Professor at Philosophy Department, Goethe University,
Frankfurt
Essays on moral theory (discourse ethic)
1983-94 Residence in Frankfurt
1984 Speech in the Spanish Parliament on the crisis of the
welfare state
Discussion group in Frankfurt with Joscha Fischer et.al.
1985 "Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne"
1986 Tanner Lectures on Human Values, University of Utah
”The Historian’s Debate” in Germany
1987 Sonning Prize, Copenhagen, Denmark (Lecture on
Kierkegaard)
Essays on post-metaphysical thinking
1990 Critique of ”DM-nationalism”
1992 "Faktizität und Geltung" on theory of law and democracy
1993 Emeritus
1994- Residence in Starnberg, Bayern
1994- Guest professor at Northwestern University, USA (fall courses)
1995 Discussion with John Rawls on political liberalism
1996 Lectures in Hong Kong and South Korea
Essays on globalization, the European Community and
on human rights
1998 Discussion with Gerhard Schröder, Berlin
1999 The liberal Theodor Heuss Prize, Stuttgart
2001 Frankfurt Book Fair Peace Prize
Visits China (lecture on human rights)
Essays on bioethics and on religion
Appeals for an European Constitution
Critique of the invasion in Iraq
2002 Lectures in Iran on secularization
2003 Essays on Europe after the Iraq war (with Jacques Derrida)
2004 Koyoto prize, Japan
2005 Discussion with Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
on religion
Holberg prize, Bergen, Norway
2006 Lectures and essays on religion in the public sphere
2008 Debate on the crisis of the EU
2009 Visiting professor at Stony Brook University, New York
Further information:
1. Martin Beck Matustik -– Jürgen Habermas. A Philosophical-Political Profile (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001)
2. Stefan Müller-Doohm - Jürgen Habermas. Leben Werk Wirkung (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2008)
3. Rolf Wiggershaus –- Jürgen Habermas (Rowohlt, 2004)
4. Detlef Horster - Jürgen Habermas zur Einführung (Junius, 1999)
5. Peter Dews (ed.) -– Habermas: Autonomy & Solidarity. Interviews with Jürgen Habermas (Verso, 1986)
6. Jürgen Habermas –- ”Öffentlicher Raum und politische Öffentlichkeit”, in Jürgen Habermas – Zwischen Naturalismus und Religion (Suhrkamp, 2005) pp. 15-26
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