The article begins with a brief introductory section that illustrates certain aspects of the personality of Jürgen Habermas (1929–2026) as a person and a scholar, based on the author’s personal interactions with him. The main body reconstructs the major shifts in Habermas’s thinking in the early 1970s, when he focused on developing the foundations of a “communicative theory of society,” which he regarded as key to understanding his work. Serving as both an intellectual tribute to the late philosopher and a synthetic presentation of Habermas’s revision of his philosophical thinking and reinterpretation of the fundamental sociological framework, the article addresses a topic that has hitherto received insufficient attention from commentators.
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