Habermas: Optimism and ethical hope regardless of historical past | EUROtoday

A cussed optimist :

Habermas and the unshakable hope for humanity

Attentive to others: Jürgen Habermas in dialog with Siegfried Unseld and Marcel Reich-Ranicki earlier than accepting the Hessian Culture Prize 1999 in Wiesbaden.dpa

Despite his darkish historical past, Habermas stays a cussed optimist. Thomas Nagel praises him as a warm-hearted, ethical utopian.