How a thinker comes to adopt or change a view may be regarded as either a strictly theoretical or biographical issue. First, looking backward at my completed philosophical-political profile of Habermas, I elucidate how biographical methodology can yield a coherent yet dynamically evolving profile rather than a static portrait. Second, examining Habermas’ thinking after 2000, the year my published biography of him ends, I venture a biographical-philosophical hypothesis that in what appears to be Habermas’ turn after 11 September 2001, or in his decisive self-choice, he is faithful to the basic motives and core intuitions that brought him to critical theory.
AS (1992) Autonomy and Solidarity: Interviews with Jürgen Habermas, ed. Peter Dews , revised and enlarged edn.London: Verso .
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AW (2004) ‘America and the World’, interview with Eduardo Mendieta, trans. Jeffrey Craig Miller. http://www.logosjournal.com/habermas_america.htm
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DIL (2003) ‘Dispute on the Past and Future of International Law. Transition from a National to a Postnational Constellation.’ Unpublished presentation at the World Congress of Philosophy (Istanbul, 10 August).
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ETC (2004) ‘Equal Treatment of Cultures and the Limits of Postmodern Liberalism’, trans. Jeffrey Flynn; ms, pp. 1–44.
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FHN (2003) The Future of Human Nature. Cambridge, MA: Polity Press .
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FK (2001) ‘Zum Friedenspreis des deutschen Buchhandels: Eine Dankrede’, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 15 October. ‘Faith and Knowledge’, delivered 14 October 2001, at Frankfurt's Paulskirche on the occasion of receiving the Peace Award of the German publishers. Published in FHN, pp. 101–105 and 126–127, trans. Hella Beister and Max Pensky.
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FT (2003) ‘Fundamentalism and Terror’. Interview with Borradori, published in Borradori et al. (2003): 25–43.
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GW (2004) Der gespaltene Westen. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag .
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ID (2003) ‘Intolerance and Discrimination’ , International Journal of Constitutional Law1, 1 (January): 2–12 . (The text is roughly identical to RT.)
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IFM (2003) ‘Was bedeutet das Denkmalsturz?’, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 17 April. (2005) ‘Interpreting the Fall of a Monument’, in Globalizing Critical Theory, ed. and trans. Max Pensky . Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield .
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KPC (2004) ‘The Kantian Project of Cosmopolitan Law’, lecture at Purdue University, 15 October. On-line video-stream of the lecture and questionandanswers period at http://web.ics.purdue.edu/%7Emmatustk/
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LA (2002) ‘Letter to America’, interview by Danny Postel, The Nation, 16 December.
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LG (2004) ‘Ein letzter Gruss’, obituary for Jacques Derrida, Frankfurter Rundschau, 10 October.
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NWE (2003) ‘Neue Welt Europa’, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 24 January.
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ORpO (2004) ‘Öffentlicher Raum und politische Öffentlichkeit: Lebensgeschichtliche Wurzeln Kenmotive’, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 11 December; thank-you speech upon receiving the Kyoto Award for a liftetime's achievement, Kyoto, Japan, 11 November 2004.
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ORSR (2004) ‘On the Relation between the Secular Liberal State and Religion’, essay trans. Matthias Fritch, in The Frankfurt School on Religion, ed. Eduardo Mendieta . New York: Routledge , pp. 337–346.
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PWE Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida (2003) ‘Plädoyer zu einer Wiedergeburt Europas’, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 31 May. Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida (2005) ‘February 15, or, What Binds Europeans Together: A Plea for a Common Foreign Policy, Beginning in Core Europe’, in Globalizing Critical Theory, ed. and trans. Max Pensky. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
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RR (2002) Religion and Rationality: Essays on Reason, God, and Modernity, ed. and intro. Eduardo Mendieta . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press . The final interview.
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RT (2004) ‘Religious Tolerance – the Pacemaker for Cultural Rights’ , Philosophy79: 5–18 . (The text is roughly identical to ID.)
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Adorno, Theodor W. (1986[1959]) ‘What Does Coming to Terms with the Past Mean?’, in Geoffrey H. Hartman, Bitburg in Moral and Political Perspective. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press , pp. 114–129.
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Albrecht, Clemens, Behrmann, Günther C., Bock, Michael, Homann, Harald and Tenbruck, Friedrich H. (1999) Die intellektuelle Gründung der Bundesrepublik: Eine Wirkungsgeschichte der Frankfurter Schule. Frankfurt: Campus.
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Borradori, Giovanna , Derrida, Jacques and Habermas, Jürgen (2003) Philosophy in a Time of Terror. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press .
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Heidegger, Martin (1983 [1935, 1953]) Einführung in die Metaphysik. Vol. 40 at the Gesamtausgabe. Frankfurt am Main: Vittonio Klostermann.
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Kraushaar, Wolfgang, ed. (1998) Frankfurter Schule und Studentenbewegung: Vol. 1, Chronik, 1946–1995;Vol. 2, Dokumente; Vol. 3, Aufsätze und Kommentare, Register.Hamburg: Rogner & Bernhard; Verlags KG.
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Libeskind, Daniel , Wieseltier, Leon and Nuland, Sherwin (2002) Monument and Memory. New York: Columbia University Press .
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Matuštík, Martin J. Beck (1993) Postnational Identity: Critical Theory and Existential Philosophy in Habermas, Kierkegaard, and Havel. New York: Guilford .
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Matuštík, Martin J. Beck (1995) ‘Derrida and Habermas on the Aporia of the Politics of Identity and Difference: Towards Radical Democratic Multiculturalism’ , Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory1, 3 (January): 383–398 .
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Matuštík, Martin J. Beck (1998) Specters of Liberation: Great Refusals in the New World Order. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press .
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Matuštík, Martin J. Beck (2001) Jürgen Habermas: A Philosophical-Political Profile. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield .
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Matuštík, Martin J. Beck (2003) letter in response to a review article on Habermas – Alan Ryan, ‘The Power of Positive Thinking’, The New York Review of Books, 16 January: 43–46; published in The New York Review of Books: 49.
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Matuštík, Martin J. Beck (2004a) ‘Between Hope and Terror: Derrida and Habermas Plead for the Im/Possible’ , to Jacques Derrida in memoriam (1930–2004), Epoche9, 1 (Fall): 1–18 .
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Matuštík, Martin J. Beck (2004b) ‘Biographical Introduction’ to Jürgen Habermas's KPC; Purdue University, 15 October. http://web.ics.purdue.edu/%7Emmatustk/CV-2.htm
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Matuštík, Martin J. Beck (2005) ‘Singular Existence and Critical Theory’ , Radical Philosophy Review8, 2-2 .
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McBride, William L. (2001) From Yugoslav Praxis to Global Pathos: Anti-Hegemonic Post-post-Marxist Essays. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Little-field .
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Metz, Johann Baptist (1997) ‘Zwischen Erinnerung und Vergessen: Die Shoah im Zeitalter der kulturellen Amnesie’, in Zum Begriff der neuen Politischen Theologie, 1967–1997.Mainz: Grünwald, pp. 149–55.
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Pensky, Max (2000) ‘Cosmopolitanism and the Solidarity Problem: Habermas on National and Cultural Identities’ , Constellations(March): 64–79 .
