Habermas, Jürgen
Habermas, Jürgen (1929– )Trained by Theodor Adorno at Frankfurt, Habermas has been seen as a member of the second generation of critical theorists. Apart from a short period in Sternberg, he taught at the University of Frankfurt from the 1960s until his retirement in 1994. He wrote on philosophical anthropology and the philosophy of the social sciences during the 1960s, but produced the essays of Towards a Rational Society in 1968–9. In these essays he allied Max Weber's account of rationalization through instrumental technique with Marx's analysis of labour and developed a powerful critique of technological domination. The argument was elaborated in association with Claus Offe and others and was set out in summary form in Legitimation Crisis (1973), which made clear the extent of his theoretical differences from Marx. Habermas...
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