One of Germany's most influential postwar philosophers Jürgen Habermas died at the age of 96 on Saturday, according to his publishing house, Suhrkamp. Habermas' work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the most important contemporary German philosophers and a leading figure at the Frankfurt School, besides Marxist thinkers like Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer. The philosopher made an international name for himself for reworking the famous "Critical Theory" developed by Adorno and Horkheimer, a theory that analyses society, politics and culture and often calls into question existing power structures, ideologies and relations of domination. Habermas was the...