Jurgen Habermas, best known for his theory of political consensus-building, shaped the discourse of post-war Germany more than any other popular intellectual.
He died on Saturday, aged 96, in Starnberg, Germany, the publisher Suhrkamp said.
Over the course of seven decades, his public interventions – from searing critiques of fascist thought in the 1950s to more recent warnings against resurgent militarism and nationalism in Germany – steered the country at critical junctions.
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