Habermas Scholars
Habermas is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Jürgen Habermas (born 1929), German sociologist and philosopher *Rebekka Habermas (born 1959), German historian *Gary Habermas Gary Robert Habermas (born 1950) is an American New Testament scholar and theologian who frequently writes and lectures on the resurrection of Jesus. He has specialized in cataloging and communicating trends among scholars in the field of histo ...

Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas (, ; ; born 18 June 1929) is a German social theorist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. His work addresses communicative rationality and the public sphere. Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas's work focuses on the foundations of epistemology and social theory, the analysis of advanced capitalism and democracy, the rule of law in a critical social-evolutionary context, albeit within the confines of the natural law tradition, and contemporary politics, particularly German politics. Habermas's theoretical system is devoted to revealing the possibility of reason, emancipation, and rational-critical communication latent in modern institutions and in the human capacity to deliberate and pursue rational interests. Habermas was known for his work on the concept of modernity, particularly with respect to the discussions of rationalization originally set forth by Max Weber. He has been influenced by American pragmatism, action theory, an ...
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Rebekka Habermas
Rebekka Habermas (born 3 July 1959, in Frankfurt am Main) is a German historian, professor of modern history at the University of Göttingen, in Germany. Habermas has made substantial contributions to German social and cultural history of the 19th century. Life Rebekka Habermas is the daughter of the philosopher and sociologist Jürgen Habermas. From 1979 to 1985, she studied history and Romance studies in Konstanz and Paris, which she completed a master's degree and Staatsexamen in 1985. She then received training in publishing and worked as editor, for a time, at S. Fischer Verlag. Having earned her doctorate at Saarland University, in 1990, under the auspices of the German National Academic Foundation, Habermas spent the next two years as associate professor at the same university's historical institute. From 1992–97, Habermas conducted research in the context of the University of Bielefeld's Special Research Project "Sozialgeschichte des neuzeitlichen Bürgertums," which ...
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