
Philipp Felsch
Intellectual historian and Humboldt University scholar specializing in modern German intellectual history; author of books on Nietzsche and Habermas and the episode's featured commentator on Jürgen Habermas's life and thought.
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Mar 13, 2026 • 1h 23min
Critical Theory After Habermas (feat. Philipp Felsch)
Philipp Felsch, an intellectual historian at Humboldt University who writes on Nietzsche and Habermas, unpacks Jürgen Habermas’s life and thought. He traces Habermas’s Frankfurt School roots and his shift from Marxism to theories of communication. They explore the origins of the public sphere, debates with Foucault, Habermas’s role in German public life, and recent controversies around his stance on Gaza.


