FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2006 photo German philosopher Juergen Habermas is seen in Koenigswinter near Bonn, Germany. (AP Photo/Hermann J. Knippertz, File) FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2006 photo German ...

BERLIN(AP) — Philosopher Jürgen Habermas has died at 96, his German publisher says.

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

It was Jürgen Habermas who coined the phrase “public sphere” — that space of discourse that mediates between the individual and the state; conversations in coffee shops, letters to the editor, opinion ...

Considered the greatest and most influential thinker since the end of World War II, his work rethinks the Enlightenment as an unfinished project always behind a new theory of reason. His character as ...