Haber, Stéphane <br/><br/>
The Habermas Effect on French Thought 

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<br/><br/> Habermas’s reception in France wad symptomatic of the gap between intellectual life in Germany and in France, especially during the 1960s and 1970s, the heyday of structuralism. Habermas himself was a harsh critics of french « postmodern » philosophers such as Foucault and Derrida. Paradoxically however, he is today widely translated and studied as a « classic » of philosophy.