IADR — HABERMAS COLLOQUIUM



(Photo: Raphael GAILLARDE Getty Images)			COLLOQUIUM—2O24 – 2O25 . THE DIALECTICS OF JÜRGEN HABERMAS - Jürgen Habermas has been described as "a dialectical thinker in the best Hegelian sense" [1], and, even more enthusiastically, as the "master dialectician of our time" [2], yet no extended study of dialectic in his thought has ever been undertaken… The Institute has convened this colloquium in order to explore the dialectics of Jürgen Habermas, whom it was common to discuss in explicitly dialectical terms in the 1960s and ’70s—i.e., before the appearance of Theory of Communicative Action (1981)—and to consider why this tendency declined in the 1980s and ’90s, to the extent that, in the 2000s, major reference volumes on Habermas, including the Habermas Handbook and Habermas Lexicon, didn’t even include entries on dialectics. Session One—10 JUN 2024 . David Ingram Douglas Kellner William Rehg Session Two—12 JUN 2024 . Andrew Buchwalter Martin Jay William Rehg Session Three—18 JUN 2024 . Justin Burke Jerzy Flyte Todd Hedrick Jean-Marc Durand-Gasselin Session Four—20 JUN 2024 . Geoff Boucher Pieter Duvenage David Ingram Douglas Kellner Session Five—26 JUN 2024 . Kenneth Baynes Geoff Boucher Michael Hofmann Douglas Kellner Session Six—6 MAR 2025 . Hauke Brunkhorst Justin Burke Jerzy Flyte Session Seven—TBD REFERENCES: . 1. Richard J. Bernstein, “Comment on the Relationship of Habermas’s Views to Hegel” in Hegel’s Social and Political Thought, edited by D.P. Verene (1980) p. 234 (Hegel Society of America, 1976). . 2. Thelma Lavine, “Philosophy and the Dialectic of Modernity”, in Perspectives on Habermas, edited by L.E. Hahn (2000) p. 139.


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