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The usage of the words "public" and "public sphere" betrays a multiplicity of concurrent meanings. Their origins go back to various historical phases and, when applied synchronically to the conditions of a bourgeois society that is industrially advanced and constituted as a social-welfare state, they fuse into a clouded amalgam. Yet the very conditions that make the inherited language seem inappropriate appear to require these words, however confused their employment.

Jurgen Habermas's Popular Quotes

The bourgeois public sphere may be conceived above all as the sphere of private people come together as a public; they soon claimed the public sphere…

- Jurgen Habermas

The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding.

- Jurgen Habermas

Reaching and understanding is the process of bringing about an agreement on the presupposed basis of validity claims that are mutually recognized.

- Jurgen Habermas

From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.

- Jurgen Habermas

I shall develop the thesis that anyone acting communicatively must, in performing any speech act, raise universal validity claims and suppose that th…

- Jurgen Habermas

The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.

- Jurgen Habermas

One never really knows who one's enemy is.

- Jurgen Habermas

The speaker must choose a comprehensible expression so that speaker and hearer can understand one another.

- Jurgen Habermas

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

- Jurgen Habermas