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Latest review! By the wonderfully perspicacious Max Pensky. Max’s essays on Habermas as a public intellectual were a real inspiration early on in m project, so it means a lot that he thinks so highly of the book ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/jurg...

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Jürgen Habermas: Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist

Peter Verovšek’s compendious, deeply researched, and engaging study of Jürgen Habermas’s “moonlighting career” as a public intellectual appears at a poignantly…

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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As a longtime listener of the Political Theory Review, it was a pleasure to discuss my book with Jeffrey Church yesterday. The episode is already up (link below). Happy listening! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

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Peter Verovsek - Juergen Habermas

Podcast Episode · The Political Theory Review · 23 September · 1hr 2min

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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Spanish language readers: My friend Jorge Giannareas wrote a really nice piece on Juergen Habermas (Jürgen Habermas) and his enduring relevance, drawing in part on my book, for La Estrella de Panamá. Thanks Jorge! www.laestrella.com.pa/opinion/colu...

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La modernidad encarnada

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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Final stop on my mini book tour: visiting my friend Paul at the University of Buffalo to give a book talk at the Law School’s Baldy Center!

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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Finally managed to get my hands on a print copy of the June 22 issue of the New Yorker in which Alex Ross reviews my book as part of his essay reflecting on Habermas’s legacy. Still as exciting as it was when I first saw the story online!

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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A couple of pictures from yesterday’s APSA panel on my book. It was a real honor for me to have so many wonderful scholars whose work shaped my intellectual formation comment on my book. Thanks to everyone for a wonderful discussion!

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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My book, filed under Western Philosophy (and above Heidegger!) at the Harvard Book Store

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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Come check out my book at the Columbia University Press display in the exhibit room at APSA! If you want to hear me talk about it in the company of a number of renowned critical theorists, you are welcome to join us tomorrow (Friday, Sept 4) at noon in Hynes 306

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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I'm doing a mini-book tour in the Northeast US, with stops in Boston, NYC and Buffalo, to promote my book on Habermas as a public intellectual. Details with links on the poster below. If you are around, please come along!

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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

In Global Policy, Tom Reifer calls my book "indispensable" in revealing "the depth of Habermas's multiple roles as journalist, scholar-activist, and intellectual, from the days of his critical intersection with the student movement to his final years." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🙏

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Jürgen Habermas: A Life of Engagement, From the Nazi Götterdämmerung to the Current Catastrophe

Jürgen Habermas's life of engagement spanned the Weimar Republic, Nazi fascism and its wars of aggression, the subsequent reckoning, and sojourn with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and there...

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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In his review Ben Randolph's calls my book "a worthy, deeply researched contribution to the ongoing construction of Habermas’s intellectual and political legacy...It will be an important resource"! 🙏 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Jürgen Habermas: Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist

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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

More academic reviews in journals are forthcoming, but this one on my book’s amazon page is very nice indeed! www.amazon.com/dp/023121303...

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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

In this episode of The Philosopher's Zone, host David Rutledge and author Peter J. Verovšek discuss JÜRGEN HABERMAS, a book that 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/KFJf0GX

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Habermas and the retreat of reason - ABC listen

The great German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, who died in March, wrote in his later works about what he called Unheimlichkeit — roughly translated as "the unease of the times" — to describe the…

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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

As a longtime listener of the Philosopher’s Zone, it was an honor to join David Rutledge on the show to discuss Habermas’s continued relevance. In addition to being broadcast on ABC Radio National, our full conversation is available here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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Habermas and the retreat of reason - ABC listen

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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

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...

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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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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

📣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

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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"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

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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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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

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

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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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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

@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!

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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

"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

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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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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

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

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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

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

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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

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...

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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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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

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

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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

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...

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

YouTube video by The Young Idealist

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Svenja Ahlhaus @svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

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!

Book cover, Jürgen Habermas: Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist

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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

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...

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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

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...

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

YouTube video by The Philosopher

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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

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...

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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

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

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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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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

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

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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

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

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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

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

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Project Syndicate @projectsyndicate.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

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

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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

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

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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

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

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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

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

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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Hi everyone, my colleague from contemporary history, Jason Resnikoff, and I are recruiting a PhD student for a position in International Union Politics. Please send us your students interested in strikes, unions and labor politics! werkenbij.rug.nl/vacature/phd...

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PhD in International Union Politics: Organized Labor in Democratic Life - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I got a chance to work with the first part of Habermas's Vorlass for my forthcoming biography. Hopefully I will have the chance to look at this more recent stuff as well at some point (given that I have corresponded with him in the period covered, I think that I should be in his papers as well!)

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New Insights into Jürgen Habermas’ Intellectual Contributions | Aktuelles aus der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

Deutsche Version Renowned Frankfurt philosopher and sociologist hands over the second part of his preliminary legacy to University Library Frankfurt For decades, he has been regarded as one of the […]

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