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Jürgen Habermas ist ein deutscher emeritierter Professor, der zu den weltweit meistrezipierten Philosophen und Soziologen der Gegenwart zählt. In der philosophischen Fachwelt wurde er bekannt durch Arbeiten zur Sozialphilosophie mit diskurs-, handlungs- und rationalitätstheoretischen Beiträgen, mit denen er die Kritische Theorie auf einer neuen Basis weiterführte. Für Habermas bilden kommunikative Interaktionen, in denen rationale Geltungsgründe erhoben und anerkannt werden, die Grundlage der Gesellschaft.

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Jürgen Habermas Berühmte Zitate

„Die Neokonservativen suchen die Krisenursachen nicht in der Funktionsweise der Ökonomie und des Staatsapparates, sondern in kulturell bedingten Legitimationsproblemen, überhaupt in dem gestörten Verhältnis von Demokratie und Kultur.“

Jürgen Habermas

Die Neue Unübersichtlichkeit, Frankfurt a.M. 1985. ISBN 3-518-11321-6

„Wahrheit nennen wir den Geltungsanspruch, den wir mit konstativen Sprechakten verbinden. Eine Aussage ist wahr, wenn der Geltungsanspruch der Sprechakte, mit denen wir, unter Verwendung von Sätzen, jene Aussage behaupten, berechtigt ist.“

Jürgen Habermas

Wahrheitstheorien. In: Helmut Fahrenbach (Hrsg.): Wirklichkeit und Reflexion. Walter Schulz zum 60. Geburtstag. Neske, Pfullingen 1973, ISBN 3-7885-0037-9, S. 218.

„Der einzige Patriotismus, der uns dem Westen nicht entfremdet, ist ein Verfassungspatriotismus.“

Jürgen Habermas

Eine Art Schadensabwicklung: Die apologetischen Tendenzen in der deutschen Zeitgeschichtsschreibung, Die Zeit Nr. 29, 11. Juli 1986. S. 40. zeit.de http://www.zeit.de/1986/29/eine-art-schadensabwicklung/komplettansicht

„Er hat mir auch die Augen geöffnet, daß man erst einmal den primären Text ausschöpfen muß, und zwar systematisch ausschöpfen muß, bevor man in die Wirkungsgeschichte hineingeht.“

Jürgen Habermas

über Theodor W. Adorno, Die Neue Unübersichtlichkeit, Frankfurt a.M. 1985. ISBN 3-518-11321-6

„Diskurse herrschen nicht. Sie erzeugen eine kommunikative Macht, die die administrative nicht ersetzen kann, sondern nur beeinflussen kann.“

Jürgen Habermas buch Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit

Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit, S. 44. Neuauflage, Frankfurt am Main, 1990. ISBN 3-518-28491-6

„Zwischen Kapitalismus und Demokratie besteht ein unauflösliches Spannungsverhältnis; mit beiden konkurrieren nämlich zwei entgegengesetzte Prinzipien der gesellschaftlichen Integration um den Vorrang.“

Jürgen Habermas buch Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns

Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns, Bd. 2, S. 507f. Frankfurt a.M. 1981, ISBN 3-518-28775-3

Jürgen Habermas Zitate und Sprüche

„Durch Demonstrationen erzwingen wir Aufmerksamkeit für unsere Argumente, die wir für die besseren halten.“

Jürgen Habermas

„Ziel ist nicht mehr schlechthin die »Aufhebung« eines kapitalistisch verselbständigten Wirtschafts- und eines bürokratisch verselbständigten Herrschaftssystem, sondern die demokratische Eindämmung der kolonialisierenden Übergriffe der Systemimperative auf lebensweltliche Bereiche.“

Jürgen Habermas

„Die Antworten der Legitimisten und Neokonservativen bewegen sich im Medium eines Zeitgeistes, der nur noch defensiv ist; sie drücken ein Geschichtsbewusstsein aus, das seiner utopischen Dimension beraubt ist.“

Jürgen Habermas

Die Neue Unübersichtlichkeit. Frankfurt a.M. 1985. ISBN 3-518-11321-6 S. 157 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=OMoUAQAAIAAJ&q=beraubt

„Deshalb heißt Sozialismus vor allem, zu wissen, was man nicht will, wovon man sich befreien will: von einer Lebensform, in der alle Lebensfragen solange umdefiniert werden, bis sie in das Muster abstrakter Arbeit industrieller und gewinnorientierter, bürokratischer und herrschaftsorientierter Prägung hineinpassen.“

Jürgen Habermas

„Solidarität ist keine Nächstenliebe, aber erst recht keine Konditionierung zum Vorteil einer Seite. Wer sich solidarisch verhält, ist bereit, sowohl im langfristigen Eigeninteresse wie im Vertrauen darauf, dass sich der andere in ähnlichen Situationen ebenso verhalten wird, kurzfristig Nachteile in Kauf zu nehmen.“

Jürgen Habermas

Protektionismus: Sind wir noch gute Europäer?, Die Zeit Nr. 28, 05. Juli 2018. zeit.de https://www.zeit.de/2018/28/protektionismus-europa-grenzen-rueckzug-herausforderungen

„Aus wissenschaftlichen Theorien folgt technisch verwertbares, aber kein normatives, kein handlungsorientierendes Wissen.“

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Jürgen Habermas: Zitate auf Englisch

“The speaker must choose a comprehensible [verständlich] expression so that speaker and hearer can understand one another.”

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Habermas (1979) cited in: Werner Ulrich (1983) Critical heuristics of social planning. p. 123

“[Critical social science attempts] to determine when theoretical statements grasp invariant regularities of social action as such and when they express ideologically frozen relations of dependence that can in principle be transformed.”

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Jürgen Habermas buch Knowledge and Human Interests

Quelle: Knowledge and Human Interests, 1971, p. 310 as cited in: Dominick LaCapra (1983) Rethinking Intellectual History: Texts, Contexts, Language. p. 170

“Technically speaking, since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities. These disruptions can, with minimum expense, have considerably destructive consequences. Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.”

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Jürgen Habermas buch Philosophy in a Time of Terror

Habermas (2004) in: Giovanna Borradori (2004) Philosophy in a Time of Terror: : Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida. p. 34

“Christianity has functioned for the normative self-understanding of modernity as more than a mere precursor or a catalyst. Egalitarian universalism, from which sprang the ideas of freedom and social solidarity, of an antonomous conduct of life and emancipation, of the individual morality of conscience, human rights, and democracy, is the direct heir to the judaic ethic of justice and the Christian ethic of love. This legacy, substantially unchanged, has been the object of continual critical appropriation and reinterpretation. To this day, there is no alternative to it. And in the light of the current challenges of a postnational constellation, we continue to draw on the substance of this heritage. Everything else is just idle postmodern talk.”

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Habermas (2006) "Conversation about God and the World." Time of transitions. Cambridge: Polity Press, p. 150-151.

“Although objectively greater demands are placed on this authority, it operates less as a public opinion giving a rational foundation to the exercise of political and social authority, the more it is generated for the purpose of an abstract vote that amounts to no more than an act of acclamation within a public sphere temporarily manufactured for show or manipulation.”

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Jürgen Habermas buch Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit

Quelle: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, 1963/1991, p. 222

“The bourgeois public sphere may be conceived above all as the sphere of private people come together as a public; they soon claimed the public sphere regulated from above against the public authorities themselves, to engage them in a debate over the general rules governing relations in the basically privatized but publicly relevant sphere of commodity exchange and social labor.”

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Jürgen Habermas buch Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit

Quelle: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, 1963/1991, p. 27

“As historical and social beings we find ourselves always already in a linguistically structured lifeworld. In the forms of communication through which we reach an understanding with one another about something in the world and about ourselves, we encounter a transcending power. Language is not a kind of private property. No one possesses exclusive rights over the common medium of the communicative practices we must intersubjectively share. No single participant can control the structure, or even the course, of processes of reaching understanding and self-understanding. How speakers and hearers make use of their communicative freedom to take yes- or no-positions is not a matter of their subjective discretion. For they are free only in virtue of the binding force of the justifiable claims they raise towards one another. The logos of language embodies the power of the intersubjective, which precedes and grounds the subjectivity of speakers.”

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Habermas (2003) The Future of Human Nature. p. 10

“The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas—in other words knowledge that has taken a theoretical attitude.”

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Jürgen Habermas buch Knowledge and Human Interests

Quelle: Knowledge and Human Interests, 1971, p. 301

“The interpretation of a case is corroborated only by the successful continuation of a self-formative process, that is by the completion of self-reflection, and not in any unmistakable way by what the patient says or how he behaves”

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Jürgen Habermas buch Knowledge and Human Interests

Quelle: Knowledge and Human Interests, 1971, p. 266

“[According to Habermas, the genesis of the bourgeois public sphere resulted from a combination of early capitalist commercial development and the organization of territorial … Representative publicness involved a re-presenting or staging for the purposes of display and acclamation, hence] this publicness (or publicity) of representation was not constituted as a social realm, that is, as a public sphere; rather, it was something like a status attribute, if this term may be permitted.”

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Jürgen Habermas buch Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit

Quelle: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, 1963/1991, p. 7 as cited in: Benedetto Fontana, Cary J. Nederman, Gary Remer (2004) Talking Democracy: Historical Perspectives on Rhetoric and Democracy. p. 222

“Reaching and understanding is the process of bringing about an agreement on the presupposed basis of validity claims that are mutually recognized.”

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Quelle: On the Pragmatics of Communication, 1998, p. 23

“The usage of the words “public" and “public sphere” betrays a multiplicity of concurrent meanings. Their origins go back to various historical phases and, when applied synchronically to the conditions of a bourgeois society that is industrially advanced and constituted as a social-welfare state, they fuse into a clouded amalgam. Yet the very conditions that make the inherited language seem inappropriate appear to require these words, however confused their employment.”

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Jürgen Habermas buch Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit

Quelle: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, 1963/1991, p. 1 as cited in: Gandy, M (1997) "Ecology, modernity and the intellectual legacy of the Frankfurt School". In: Light, A and Smith, JM, (eds.) Space, Place and Environmental Ethics. p. 240

“The 'state' on the modern conception is a legally defined term which refers, at the level of substance, to a state power that possesses both internal and external sovereignty, at the spatial level over a clearly delimited terrain (the state territory) and at the social level over the totality of members (the body of citizens or the people). State power constitutes itself in the forms of positive law, and the people is the bearer of the legal order whose jurisdiction is restricted to the state territory. In political usage, the concepts 'nation' and 'people' have the same extension. But in addition to its legal definition, the term 'nation' has the connotation of a political community shaped by common descent, or at least by a common language, culture, and history. A people becomes a 'nation' in this historical sense only in the concrete form of a particular form of life.”

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Jürgen Habermas buch The Inclusion of the Other

Habermas (1998) The Inclusion of the Other: Studies in Political Theory. Ciaran Cronin and Pablo De Greiff, eds. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

“All affected can accept the consequences and the side effects that [the norm's] general observance can be anticipated to have for the satisfaction of everyone's interests, and the consequences are preferred to those of known alternative possibilities for regulation.”

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Jürgen Habermas buch Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit

Quelle: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, 1963/1991, p. 65

“What Kant regarded as a unique (Copernican) turn to transcendental reflection becomes in Hegel a general mechanism for turning consciousness back upon itself. This mechanism has been switched on and off time and time again in the development of spirit. As the subject becomes conscious of itself, it destroys one form of consciousness after another. This process epitomizes the subjective experience that what initially appears to the subject as a being in itself can become content only in the forms imparted to it by the subject. The transcendental philosopher’s experience is thus, according to Hegel, reenacted naively whenever an in-itself becomes a for-the-subject. What Hegel calls “Dialectical” is the reconstruction of this recurrent experience and of its assimilation by the subject, which gives rise to ever more complex structures. … Hegel, it should be noted, exposes himself to a criticism. … Reconstructing successive forms of consciousness is one thing. Proving the necessity of their succession is quite another.”

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Quelle: Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action (1983), p. 5

“The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding.”

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Quelle: On the Pragmatics of Communication, 1998, p. 21

“I would in fact tend to have more confidence in the outcome of a democratic decision if there was a minority that voted against it, than if it was unanimous… Social psychology has amply shown the strength of this bandwagon effect.”

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Habermas (1993) "Further reflections on the public sphere", in: Craig Calhoun Eds. Habermas and the Public Sphere. MIT Press. p. 441

“Philosophy's position with regard to science, which at one time could be designated with the name "theory of knowledge," has been undermined by the movement of philosophical thought itself. Philosophy was dislodged from this position by philosophy.”

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Jürgen Habermas buch Knowledge and Human Interests

Quelle: Knowledge and Human Interests, 1971, p. 4

“As medium for reaching understanding, speech acts serve: a) to establish and renew interpersonal relations, whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the world of legitimate social orders; b) to represent states and events, whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the world of existing states of affairs; c) to manifest experiences that is, to represent oneself- whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the subjective world to which he has privileged access.”

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Jürgen Habermas buch Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns

Quelle: The Theory of Communicative Action, 1987, p. 308

“If we compare the third-person attitude of someone who simply says how things stand (this is the attitude of the scientist, for example) with the performative attitude of someone who tries to understand what is said to him (this is the attitude of the interpreter, for example), the implications … become clear. … First, interpreters relinquish superiority that observers have by virtue of their privileged position, in that they themselves are drawn, at least potentially, into negotiations about the meaning and validity of utterances. By taking part in communicative action, they accept in principle the same status as those whose utterances they are trying to understand. … It is impossible to decide a priori who is to learn from whom.”

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Quelle: Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action (1983), p. 26

“Subjects who reciprocally recognize each other as such, must consider each other as identical, insofar as they both take up the position of subject; they must at all times subsume themselves and the other under the same category. At the same time, the relation of reciprocity of recognition demands the non-identity of one and the other, both must also maintain their absolute difference, for to be a subject implies the claim of individuation.”

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Habermas (1972) "Sprachspiel, intention und Bedeutung. Zu Motiven bei Sellars und Wittgenstein". In R.W. Wiggerhaus (Ed.) Sprachanalyse and Soziologie. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp). p. 334
This is called the paradoxical achievement of intersubjectivity

“This investigation aims to analyze the type "bourgeois public sphere". Its particular approach is required, to begin with, by the difficulties specific to an object whose complexity precludes exclusive reliance on the specialized methods of a single discipline. Rather, the category. "public sphere" must be investigated within the broad field formerly reflected in the perspective of the traditional science of "politics."' When particular social-scientific discipline, this object disintegrates. The problems that result from fusing aspects of sociology and economics, of constitutional law and political science, and of social and intellectual history are obvious: given the present state of differentiation and specialization in the social sciences, scarcely anyone will be able to master several, let alone all, of these disciplines.”

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Jürgen Habermas buch Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit

Quelle: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, 1963/1991, p.xvii

“I shall develop the thesis that anyone acting communicatively must, in performing any speech act, raise universal validity claims and suppose that they can be vindicated.”

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Quelle: On the Pragmatics of Communication, 1998, p. 22

“Science can only be comprehended epistemologically, which means as one category of possible knowledge, as long as knowledge is not equated either effusively with the absolute knowledge of a great philosophy or blindly with scientistic self-understanding of the actual business of research.”

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Jürgen Habermas buch Knowledge and Human Interests

Quelle: Knowledge and Human Interests, 1971, p. 4

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