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Philosophical Haiku

Jürgen Habermas (1929-)

by Terence Green

From speech comes reason.
Discourse of modernity,
Enlightenment’s heir.

Jürgen Habermas represents those for whom the ideals of the Enlightenment remain actual possibilities. In other words, he rejects the claim of post-modernists (such as Lyotard) that the Enlightenment project has failed: there remains, Habermas argues, the potential for a fully rational and scientific understanding of our world.

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