text: A line about the “inner truth and greatness” in a work by Martin Heidegger convinced this thinker that philosophy was ill-equipped to understand or criticize the Nazi agenda.
full_question: A line about the “inner truth and greatness” in a work by Martin Heidegger convinced this thinker that philosophy was ill-equipped to understand or criticize the Nazi agenda. This thinker was born with a cleft palate which required two operations, causing this thinker to reconsider speech as the primary mode of transmission and this thinker wrote his dissertation on the conflict of history and the absolute in the works of Friedrich Schelling. In 2012 this thinker wrote the Crisis of the European Union and in 2005 this thinker was the second recipient of the Holberg Prize, a Nobel-equivalent for sociology, in part for his works exploring the development and construction of bourgeois society. This thinker’s first major work was The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and this thinker’s On the Logic of the Social Sciences sought to ground the discipline in “a theory of language.” For ten points, name this German thinker whose theories of communication and re-conceptualization of thought and language are most notably espoused in his great work The Theory of Communicative Action.
first_sentence: A line about the “inner truth and greatness” in a work by Martin Heidegger convinced this thinker that philosophy was ill-equipped to understand or criticize the Nazi agenda.