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Jürgen Habermas

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Jürgen Habermas

Birthname

Birthday: June 18, 1929

Birthplace: DÃ¼sseldorf, Rhine Province, Prussia, Germany

Educated At: University Of Bonn, University Of Göttingen, University Of Marburg

Nationality: Germany

Occupations: University Teacher, Sociologist, Philosopher

Total quotes: 1

“Anyone who replies to the signals of desolidarization with an appeal to the ‘self-confident nation’ or by calling for a return to the ‘normality’ of the reestablished national state, is using the devil to drive out Satan. For these unsolved global problems reveal precisely the limits of the nation-state. From the somber drumroll of national history emerge war memorials with limited vision. Only as a critical authority does history serve as a teacher. At best it tells us how we ought not to do it. It is from experiences of a negative kind that we learn. That is why 1989 will remain a fortunate date only so long as we respect 1945 as the genuinely instructive one.”

— Jürgen Habermas, The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism

Tagged: Berlin Wall, National History, The Political, World War II

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