COLLOQUIUM—SUMMER 2O24
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THE DIALECTICS OF JÜRGEN HABERMAS
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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
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David Ingram
Douglas Kellner
William Rehg

Session Two - 12 JUN 2024
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Andrew Buchwalter
Martin Jay
William Rehg

Session Three - 18 JUN 2024
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Justin Burke
Jersey Flight
Todd Hedrick
Jean-Marc Durand-Gasselin

Session Four - 20 JUN 2024
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Geoff Boucher
Pieter Duvenage
David Ingram
Douglas Kellner

Session Five - 26 JUN 2024
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Kenneth Baynes
Geoff Boucher
Michael Hofmann
Douglas Kellner

Session Six - 27 JUN 2024
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(POSTPONED)


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.