This [book] makes for fascinating reading The Guardian Habermas is a biography of an accomplished living intellectual whose audience is extended much beyond the academic world. Stefan Muller-Doohm is a perfect storyteller and he tells the story of Habermas in such a way that you will not be able to put it down before you finish it. Nobody ... Read moreknows the art of biography better than Muller-Doohm. The Washington Book Review Few would contest the verdict that Habermas has achieved in both his philosophical work and in his role as a public intellectual a place of enduring significance that surpasses that of any other thinker in our time. The definitive new biography by Stefan Muller-Doohm lays out the evidence for this conclusion with great care and enormous sympathy for its protagonist. The Nation Heidegger's lapidary biographical summation, The man was born, he worked, and then died, may have been appropriate for Aristotle, but is woefully inadequate for the philosopher who is arguably our era's version of the great Greek polymath, Jurgen Habermas. For not only is he still very much alive and producing new work at a vigorous pace, but it is also the case that his voluminous contributions to philosophy, sociology, political theory, and cultural criticism demand to be read in the context of his remarkable career as a committed public intellectual. As his masterful biography of Adorno already demonstrated, Stefan Muller-Doohm shows himself to be fully up to the task of discerning figures in the intricately woven carpet of a major thinker's life and work. Martin Jay, University of California Berkeley Show Less