"He Refuses to 'Let Defeatism Have the Last Word'"

"Later, he said he wouldn't have found his way into philosophy and social theory if he hadn't experienced confronting the reality of Nazi crimes as a young man. He recalled that 'you saw suddenly that it was a politically criminal system in which you had lived'." 

At The Guardian, Donna Ferguson and Philip Oltermann report the death of Jürgen Habermas.

"I'm Not One of Those Intellectuals Who Shoot Without Aim"

"I am of the antiquated opinion that philosophy should continue to try answering the questions of Kant: What can I know? What should I know? What can I expect? What is it to be human? However, I'm not sure that philosophy as we know it has a future. Currently, it follows the trend of increasing specialization, like all disciplines. And that's a dead-end street because philosophy should try to explain the whole, to contribute to the rational explanation of our way of understanding ourselves and the world."

Borja Hermoso at El Pais interviews Jurgen Habermas.