Jürgen Habermas

Member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. He was a professor at the Frankfurt am Main Institute of Social Research and the New York School for Social Research. He was the director of the Max Plank Institute in Munich from 1971 to 1983. His many publications include Knowledge and Human Interests (1968), The Theory of Communicative Action (1981), The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1962) and Beyond the Nation State (1990).