The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Religion & Ethics website has just republished a combined and slightly revised version of two essays I recently published on Habermas. it is an honor to be able to showcase my work to a new audience down under! www.abc.net.au/religion/jur...

Did Jürgen Habermas’s death also mark the end of his vision of democratic life? - ABC Religion & Ethics

Jürgen Habermas, the greatest democratic theorist of the post-war era, died in March. Some see his death as the final nail in the coffin of the more reasonable, deliberative world he defended — such f...

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📣Translation incoming📖 Like most students of German social and political theory, I was obsessed with Suhrkamp books and the Suhrkamp-Kultur as a graduate student. To hear that my book on Habermas is being translated and will appear in German with Suhrkamp is thus super exciting

"There were always two [Jürgen] Habermases: the methodical academic and the nimble public commentator. Peter J. Verovšek...explores that double identity identity in a new book, JÜRGEN HABERMAS: PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL AND ENGAGED CRITICAL THEORIST."—Alex Ross, @newyorker.com buff.ly/kPmYtug

Jürgen Habermas Defended Reason in a Darkening Age

The great German philosopher, who died in March, understood how much depended on a principled public sphere.

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First📕review of is now out! “Its value lies not only in the author’s archival work, but also in his gift for grand synthesis…which has the potential to establish a lasting paradigm for thinking about Habermas as a participant in German and European public life.” 🙏 @W_Engelking

Speaking truth to power, violating one's own rules. Review of: Jürgen Habermas: Public intellectual and engaged critical theorist by Peter J. Verovšek

Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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@stefanauer.bsky.social is one of the first to spot my book “in the wild” (via LinkedIn). I would love to hear about other sightings!

Reading for this weekend

"Thinking with Habermas against Habermas...reveals how the most influential philosopher of the postwar era was trapped by his own particularistic understanding of what the Holocaust meant for him and for Germany..."—Peter Verovšek, Social Europe buff.ly/kOyrHZ1 #JürgenHabermas #CriticalTheory

Habermas’s Gaza Misjudgment Does Not Doom His Legacy

His reflexive defence of Israel contradicts the universal principles his life’s work was built to uphold.

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Memorial in honor of Jürgen Habermas on what would have been his 97th birthday, with a laudatio by the President of the German Federal Republic, Frank-Walter Steinmaier

Omg, my book is mentioned in this new article about Habermas published today on the website of the New Yorker! 🤯

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The great German philosopher, who died in March, understood how much depended on a principled public sphere. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

While some posthumous commentators believe that Habermas's signature of the Normative Orders statement on Gaza is an indelible stain on his legacy, I argue that it presents us with the opportunity to "think with Habermas against Habermas" www.socialeurope.eu/habermass-ga...

Habermas’s Gaza Misjudgment Does Not Doom His Legacy

His reflexive defence of Israel contradicts the universal principles his life’s work was built to uphold.

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Now available! This book transforms our understanding of Habermas by focusing on his work as a public intellectual, showing how he has shaped debates far beyond the ivory tower. buff.ly/YinZZHe @pjv.bsky.social #JürgenHabermas #CriticalTheory #FrankfurtSchool #PublicIntellectuals

My discussion of the life and philosophy of Jürgen Habermas with Christopher Satoor. It was a really nice conversation, if anyone is interested in more of my thoughts on Habermas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T6n...

The Life and Philosophy of Jürgen Habermas with Dr. Peter J. Verovšek (Groningen University).

YouTube video by The Young Idealist

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Today Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social will present his new and timely book "Jürgen Habermas: Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist" in Münster @ifpolms.bsky.social (4-6pm) All are welcome!

In which I discuss my book and why we need to continue to read and learn from Habermas today

Jürgen Habermas: Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist | Peter Verovšek

YouTube video by The Chasing Leviathan Podcast

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Some photos from my book launch in Groningen on Monday. Thanks so much to Titus Stahl, Carmen Puchinger and Joel Anderson for commenting, as well as the PPE Centre and the chair in Global Politics of Europe www.rug.nl/let/onze-fac...

If you are interested in hearing me talk more about my book, the recording of this session I did with Alexis Papazoglou on The Philosophy is now up on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-1R...

Habermas, the philosopher of the public sphere: Peter J. Verovšek with Alexis Papazoglou

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The Philosopher@philosopher1923.bsky.social · 5mo ago

#Habermas #FrankfurtSchool #CriticalTheory @alexispapazoglou.bsky.social Have a look at Peter J. Verovšek's book, "Jürgen Habermas: Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist," and hope to see you on Monday! cup.columbia.edu/book/jurgen-...

From a remembrance of Habermas in German. Well worth reading, if for no other reason than because it is the first citation I have found to my new book! (To be clear, it is lesenswert for other reasons as well) www.soziopolis.de/juergen-habe...

Jürgen Habermas (1929–2026) has died at 96. One of the most influential philosophers of the past century, his work reshaped debates on democracy, the public sphere, and communicative rationality. Read more about his life and thought in JÜRGEN HABERMAS

Jürgen Habermas | Columbia University Press

Jürgen Habermas is Germany’s most important postwar philosopher, the leading figure of the Frankfurt School in this period. He is best known for the conc... | CUP

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Honored to have been asked to contribute to this Traueranzeige (death notice) which ran in the FAZ and the Süddeutsche Zeitung thanking Habermas for his life and work along with so many valued colleagues and friends

V četrtek 26.3ga ob 18ih bom predstavljal svojo knjigo o Habermasu v Slovenski matici na Kongresnem trgu. Vabljeni!

V danajšnji Soboti prilogi. Moj prvenec v Delo. Kratek spomin na Jürgena Habermasa, misleca srhljivosti našega časa.

In addition to theorizing the public sphere, Jürgen Habermas was also active within it, serving as a relentless provocateur who shaped nearly every major debate in postwar German public life, @pjv.bsky.social writes. bit.ly/4sqkX8k

Come online and listen to me talk about Jürgen Habermas and his legacy on Mon. Mar. 23, 3pm ET /7pm UK /18.00 CET www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...

Select tickets – "Habermas: the philosopher of the public sphere": Peter J. Verovšek in conversation with Alexis Papazoglou – Zoom

"Habermas: the philosopher of the public sphere": Peter J. Verovšek in conversation with Alexis Papazoglou – Zoom, Mon 23 Mar 2026 - Philosophy has always something to say about the ideas behind the b...

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My obituary for Jürgen Habermas is now up at Project Syndicate

Habermas and the World We Have Lost

Peter J. Verovšek reflects on the life of the postwar West’s leading philosopher and public intellectual.

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A bit late, but here is my remembrance celebrating Habermas and his work after his passing on Saturday. He will be missed, now more than ever

Jürgen Habermas Shaped the Postwar Order — His Death Must Not Mark Its End

The greatest democratic theorist of the postwar era leaves behind a world dismantling everything he defended.

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One of the greatest minds and most committed democrats of the last hundred years has passed away. I was so privileged to meet him and to have been able to talk with him for over 7 hours about my book on him as a public intellectual back in June of 2024. RIP

Some shots from my first book launch for Jürgen Habermas: Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist at Leiden University in Den Haag yesterday. Thanks so much to everyone for coming! A flyer with a discount code is attached if anyone is interested in ordering the book

Author copies just arrived! The book officially comes out on March 24, but now I have the first printed examples in hand for my presentation in The Hague tomorrow afternoon as part of the Radical Readings of the Philosophical Canon workshop

My latest publication - this time examining how Arendt (not Habermas!) - acts as a public intellectual was just published ahead of print by Philosophy & Social Criticism. Check it out and let me know what you think!

The Political Theorist in the Public Realm: The Place of Theory in Arendt’s Pluralistic Politics of ‘Words and Deeds’ - Peter J. Verovšek, 2026

Political theorists are in the midst of a debate on their role in public policy and politics. Despite this growing literature, there is little scholarship on Ar...

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Peter J. Verovšek, Jürgen Habermas: Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist - @columbiaup.bsky.social, March 2026 @pjv.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/jurgen-...

Jürgen Habermas | Columbia University Press

Jürgen Habermas is Germany’s most important postwar philosopher, the leading figure of the Frankfurt School in this period. He is best known for the conc... | CUP

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