ABSTRACT
Jürgen Habermas’s work as a social and critical theorist first gained wide attention in 1968, when he published Erkenntnis und Interesse (Knowledge and Human Interests). With this book he became recognized as the heir to such earlier Frankfurt theorists as Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse. Habermas’s work, however, has subsequently become much more Kantian in inspiration than that of these forebears.
