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The interpretation of a case is corroborated only by the successful continuation of a self-formative process, that is by the completion of self-reflection, and not in any unmistakable way by what the patient says or how he behaves.
Jurgen Habermas
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Jurgen Habermas
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: June 18
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Dusseldorf
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Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel. These people often fight in a decentralized manner in small, autonomous units, too.
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Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis.
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The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11...only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.
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The avant-garde understands itself as invading unknown territory, exposing itself to the dangers of sudden, shocking encounters, conquering an as yet unoccupied future ... The avant-garde must find a direction in a landscape into which no one seems to have yet ventured.
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I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act
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Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.
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Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.
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Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future.
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The speaker must choose a comprehensible expression so that speaker and hearer can understand one another.
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The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.
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I take as my fundamental starting point the fundamental distinction between work and interaction
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Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists
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Each murder is one too many.
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