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Jürgen Habermas, who died on 14 March 2026, devoted his academic life to examining the conditions for the public use of reason. He linked the hope for a society guided by public reason to the fact that, in democracies, there is no alternative to the human capacity for argumentation and learning.

This is Erik O. Eriksens introduction to ARENA’s annual lecture May 2 2012: Challenges to Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Europe, held by Professor Seyla Benhabib.