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Jurgen Habermas

The Audacity of Thought: Film Director Margarethe von Trotta Examines the Life of a Passionate Intellectual in Hannah Arendt

Penelope Andrew | Posted 06.03.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Adolf Eichmann, The New School for Social Research, The New Yorker, Janet McTeer, Film Forum, Hannah Arendt, Margarethe Von Trotta, Kurt H. Wolff, Jurgen Habermas, Pamela Katz, Axel Milberg, Barbara Sukowa, Martin Heiddeger, Mary Mccarthy, Susan Sontag, Bill Maher, Entertainment News
Penelope Andrew

Thinking and smoking. Smoking and thinking. Thinking, smoking, and pacing the floor of her apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. This is how we see the gifted academic and profound socio-political philosopher, Hannah Arendt, prepare to write.

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The Aesthetics of Civil Society

Vince Carducci | Posted 02.03.2013 | Arts
Read More: Culture Wars, Public Sphere, Jurgen Habermas, Civil Society, Jacques Ranciere, Social Impact, General Social Survey, Arts Social Impact, Nea, Leroux, Arts News
Vince Carducci

University of Illinois Chicago political scientist Kelly LeRoux and co-author Anna Bernadska recently published a study that shows a positive correlation between participation in the arts and engagement with civil society.

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Seeking Truth In A World Of Competing Narratives

William Grassie | Posted 06.30.2012 | Religion
Read More: Hermeneutics, Conflict, Big History, Gadamer, Narratives, Religion and Science, Jürgen Habermas, Interpretation, Truth, Ideology, Interfaith, Ricoeur, Religion News
William Grassie

Is there some other way to adjudicate between the competing metanarratives that shape our lives and identities, determining how we think and act, what we hold to be true and good?

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Yet Another Republican Provides Exactly the Wrong View of Politics and Faith

Feisal G. Mohamed | Posted 06.08.2012 | Politics
Read More: Gop, Religion and Politics, Meet the Press, Jurgen-Habermas, Republican Party, Raul Labrador, Politics News
Feisal G. Mohamed

If state officials compose or construe laws based on a particular religious view, they are depriving citizens who do not share that view of the rights of democratic citizenship. That is why it is troubling to hear a public official speak the way that Mr. Labrador has done.

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The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere

Christopher Lane | Posted 05.05.2012 | Religion
Read More: Rick Santorum, American Politics, Christianity, Charles Taylor, Separation of Church and State, Jürgen Habermas, Secularism, Republican Politics, Public Religion, Religion News
Christopher Lane

A debate about the scope and limits of secularism has begun to collide once more with those wanting to increase the power and presence of religion in the public sphere.

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