The German philosopher and sociologist Jürgen Habermas (Düsseldorf, 1929 – Stanberg, 2026) died this Saturday at the age of 96, according to a statement released by the publishing house Suhrkamp, ​​which quoted his family. Habermas, one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century and a member of the second generation of the Frankfurt School, began his career in the 1950s at the Institute for Social Research with Theodor W. Adorno. In 1961, he received his doctorate from Marburg with his dissertation. The structural transformation of the public sphere