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...

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!

In which I discuss my book and why we need to continue to read and learn from Habermas today

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Come online and listen to me talk about Jürgen Habermas and his legacy on Mon. Mar. 23, 3pm ET /7pm UK /18.00 CET www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...

My obituary for Jürgen Habermas is now up at Project Syndicate

A bit late, but here is my remembrance celebrating Habermas and his work after his passing on Saturday. He will be missed, now more than ever

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

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

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

My latest publication - this time examining how Arendt (not Habermas!) - acts as a public intellectual was just published ahead of print by Philosophy & Social Criticism. Check it out and let me know what you think!

Peter J. Verovšek, Jürgen Habermas: Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist - @columbiaup.bsky.social, March 2026 @pjv.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/jurgen-...

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...

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!)

I don't have an exact publication date yet, but my Habermas biography now has a page on the Columbia University Press website!

Working through the page proofs and creating the index for my book on Habermas as a public intellectual. This is finally becoming a reality!

🚨Publication alert! In my new piece in JCES I link the rise of illiberal democracy in Central Europe to the republican tradition in political theory and draw on Habermas to suggest ways that the West can engage in immanent critique of these developments www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Habemus operculum libri! My book on Habermas as a public intellectual does not have a website or a publication date yet (it's looking like early 2026), but it does have a cover! Many thanks to Talal Nayer for creating the cover image for me.

Well, that’s a new one. I just got the student discount on my lunch because my server was a student in my big lecture course last year.

My latest piece on how Jürgen Habermas has rebuilt the Frankfurt School's link between theory and practice as a public intellectual is up early view in Constellations. If you are interested and have the opportunity to read the piece I would love to know what you think! #AcademicSky #PolTheory

Chilling at the “Micky Mouse Cafe” at the European Parliament before my talk at the “From War to Occupation: Europe’s Divided Victory in 1945” conference

A nice review of Red Reckoning: The Cold War and the Transformation of American Life, highlighting my contribution to an edited collection I recently contributed to. #AcademicSky academic.oup.com/jah/article-...

My colleague, Jason Resnikoff, and I are excited to announce a call for a well-paid, four-year PhD position to work on an interdisciplinary project focused on the transnational role of unions in the modern democratic public sphere! www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

🌟 Scholar Spotlight: Peter J. Verovšek 🌟 @pjv.bsky.social examines how generational shifts shape European integration, explaining why progress has stalled and what the future may hold. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Superpower Europe in one of the most important areas - life!

My spotlight of four books on Habermas and the Institute for Social Research published in 2024 is up on the EJPT's website. Will be of interest to anyone working on critical theory in the tradition of the Frankfurt School. Happy reading! #AcademicSky #PolTheory journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

On vacation in Vietnam, but posting a couple of photos from the wonderful workshop on the future of liberal democracy at Yale-NUS hosted by the wonderful @bas2181.bsky.social that brought me to SEA in the first place

The first day of our workshop on the new structural transformation of the digital public sphere was a great success with much constructive and occasionally agonistic debate. If you are in the area you can still join us for tomorrow’s sessions!

great overview of online archives

My article was just published in the latest issue of @risjnl.bsky.social Check it out! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

So happy to see my latest piece on Habermas's career as a freelance journalist between 1954-56 come out in New German Critique, one of the key outlets for the reception of the Frankfurt School in English! It is a nice précis of some arguments from my book, forthcoming with Columbia University Press

📢Call for papers!🚨 @javierburdman.bsky.social, Aline Sierp and I are co-editing a special issue of the Journal of Social and Political Philosophy on "Critical Theories of History and Memory." See the call for more details - all submissions welcome! www.memorystudiesassociation.org/call-for-pap...

I was invited to Habermas’s house yesterday “zu einer Tasse Kaffee.“ I am still processing the whole experience (we talked for over six hours!), but it is surreal to have sat with Habermas in Starnberg under Günther Fruhtrunk’s painting “Wiesengrund”

Me with my enormous Dutch ballot for the European Parliament elections today. If you are eligible, go vote!

I won’t submit it until the end of June, but I just put all the chapters together in one file, so my book on Habermas as a public intellectual is finally a reality! It comes in at just under 170,000 words (including all references) and just over 500 pages. 😅

My latest piece is finally up online. It is an attempt to sum up and push the implications from my book on memory and the EU a bit further. The fact that has come out in JCMS - a journal that has been on my bucket list for a while - makes it even better. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨New publication💥 I recently contributed to a wonderful new volume on the Cold War in American life. The book arrived a few days ago and it is even better than advertised! muse.jhu.edu/book/111696

Our two day political theory meeting continues today with our 6th annual workshop on Hannah Arendt!

Our 2nd annual radical readings workshop - this year on Marx - is now underway! Our 6th annual workshop on Hannah Arendt’s political philosophy is up in Leiden tomorrow

I am still recovering from my book manuscript workshop in Frankfurt last Friday, but I want to thank all the great scholars who came for helping me to improve my book on Habermas the public intellectual. Now I just have to figure out how to integrate all of wonderful the comments I received!

A short pilgrimage to a couple of sites related to the Frankfurt School before continuing my archival visit at the Habermas Vorlass today. My book manuscript workshop starts early tomorrow morning 😅

Four years after my initial visit in February-March 2020 was cut short by the outbreak of Covid-19, I am back in the archive at Habermas Vorlass chasing down a few details ahead of my book manuscript workshop on Friday. It’s amazing how far my work on Habermas as a public intellectual has come!

🚨Book Manuscript Workshop Announcement📢 Rainer Forst will be hosting a workshop on my book manuscript on Habermas as a public intellectual, tentatively entitled Engaged Critical Theory. Registration details below if you are in Frankfurt. If not, please DM me for a Zoom link.