Columbia Memorial Workshop: The Legacy of Jürgen Habermas
Organized by Seyla Benhabib, Jean L. Cohen and Axel Honneth
November 13, 2026
Columbia University, Deutsches Haus, New York
I. Critique and Communicative Reason
Chair: Andreas Huyssen
Axel Honneth: “The Price of the Linguistic Turn: Revisiting Habermas's Concept of Communication”
Seyla Benhabib: “The Unity of Reason and the Diversity of its Voices”
Nancy Fraser: “Legitimation Crisis or Crisis of Hegemony?”
II. Democratic Theories of the State and the Public Sphere
Chair: Lydia Goehr
Andrew Arato: “The Double Movements of Modern Societies and the Colonization Thesis”
Jean Cohen: “The Scientization of Politics? Revisiting Habermas’ Critique of Technocracy, and the Colonization Thesis”
Turkuler Isiksel: “European Integration Between System and Lifeworld”
Stefan Eich: “Legitimation Crises of Money: The Politics of the Economy between Technocracy and Democracy”
III. Modernity, Political Secularism and Post-Secularism
Chair: Bernard Harcourt
Michel Rosenfeld: “Discourse, Rights, and Justification in a Post-Secular Age”
Jay Bernstein: “Habermas's Theory of Human Rights”
Christopher Zurn: “Hopes for Law: Wrecked on the Shoals of Authoritarianism?”
Joel Whitebook: “Habermas's Quasi-Religious Turn”
IV. Universalism and Post-Metaphysical Thought
Chair: Michele Moody-Adams
Susan Buck-Morss: “A Planetary Public Sphere?”
Linda Martín Alcoff: “Habermas's Engagement with Decolonial Theory”
Jeff Flynn: “Habermas’s Genealogies”
Ken Baynes: “Post-metaphysical Philosophy and the Social Sciences”
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