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Jürgen Habermas lived through nearly a century of German and European history and spent most of it insisting that democracy depends less on power than on conversation. Born in 1929 and shaped by the moral wreckage of Nazi Germany, he dedicated his life to a simple but demanding idea: that free societies survive only when citizens remain willing to argue with one another in public.
He wrote about the public sphere, communicative reason, and the fragile ethics of dialogue, becoming the last great voice of the Frankfurt School and an unusually visible philosopher in political life. He lectured, debated, intervened in controversies, and continued to write well into his nineties.
He died in 2026 at the age of 96, having spent a lifetime defending a stubborn conviction: that the fate of democracy may ultimately depend on something as ordinary and as difficult as people speaking to each other seriously.
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