Jurgen Habermas is one of the best-known and most influential
philosophers in Europe today. Heir to the Frankfurt school, his
reputation rests on more than thirty years of groundbreaking works
on society knowledge, history, technology; ethics, and many other
subjects. He is also a familiar figure in his native Germany where
he has often played a prominent role in public de-bates. In recent
years, he has spoken out ever more directly on the extraordinary
changes taking place in Germany, Europe, and the world.
This volume of interviews reveals Habermas's passionate
engagement with contemporary issues. Wide-ranging and informal, the
interviews focus on matters of decisive importance to Germany and
the rest of the world in the 1990s: German unification; recent
explosive debates about interpretations of German history,
Germany's asylum policies, and the Nazi era; efforts to create a
cooperative, peaceful Europe; and the significance of the Persian
Gulf War. A final interview focuses on the relation between theory
and practice--between philosophy and the so-called real world. In
an afterword to the volume, Habermas addresses a broad spectrum of
issues facing Germany and other nations in this final decade of the
century.
Ably translated and annotated by Max Pensky, professor of
philosophy at the State University of New York-Binghamton, "The
Past as Future" provides a striking portrait of an intellectual who
is equally at home in the world of academic philosophy and in
mainstream debate--and who can make valuable connections between
the two.
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