In dozens of books, he rejected postmodern cynicism about truth and reason, arguing that rational communication was the best ...

Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was ...

German philosopher Juergen Habermas, one of the world's most influential thinkers and a leading voice in shaping postwar German thought, has died at age 96.

Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas was a world-renowned thinker on modernity and democracy who helped shape German post-war and post-reunification political discourse.