Abstract
How a thinker comes to adopt or change a view may be regarded as either a strictly theoretical or biographical issue. First, looking backward at my completed philosophical-political profile of Habermas, I elucidate how biographical methodology can yield a coherent yet dynamically evolving profile rather than a static portrait. Second, examining Habermas’ thinking after 2000, the year my published biography of him ends, I venture a biographical-philosophical hypothesis that in what appears to be Habermas’ turn after 11 September 2001, or in his decisive self-choice, he is faithful to the basic motives and core intuitions that brought him to critical theory.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 21-36 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Philosophy & Social Criticism |
Volume | 32 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2006 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- 9/11
- Jürgen Habermas
- Søren Kierkegaard
- UN
- biography
- cosmopolitanism
- critical theory
- existentialism
- religion
- terror
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Philosophy
- Sociology and Political Science