Nancy Fraser

Jürgen Habermas may be variously described as the moral conscience of postwar Germany, the last great systematic philosopher, the dominant figure in the second generation of the Frankfurt School and the thinker who brought that ‘school’ to an end. Others can and will reckon his contributions at that grand scale. What I have to offer is more specific: the reflections of a leftwing North American member of his circle on what she learned from him and what she could only learn by looking elsewhere.