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The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
Jürgen Habermas
Born: June 18, 1929 (age 96)
Bio: Jürgen Habermas is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his theories on communicative rationality and the public sphere.
Known for:
- The Theory of Communicative Action (1981)
- Knowledge and Human Interests
- The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (1985)
- Moral Conciousness and Communicative Action (1983)
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