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Habermas on Twitter?

Brian Leiter

MOVING TO FRONT FROM JANUARY 29–SEE UPDATE

Is this for real?  So far, I can't find out.

(Thanks to Stuart Buck for the pointer.)

UPDATE:  As the comments make clear, it's now clear this is an imposter, so readers on Twitter should notify Twitter, since one of the few rules they actually do enforce is the one that bars misappropriating identities.

UPDATE (2/1, 11 AM):  Once again, Leiter Reports readers get results:  the fake Habermas Twitter account is gone.  Now everyone needs to help the KCL philosophers!

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7 responses to “Habermas on Twitter?”

  1. Andy Naaktgeboren

    If it's not real, then someone has done a pretty good job of stalking all of Habermas's recent output and adding in some German for camouflage; Tyler Cowen, at least, thinks it is real (http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/01/favorite-tweets.html).

    (When I sat in on his lecture and with him in a presentation at Stony Brook last year, I didn't see any cellphones, but that doesn't mean much.)

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  2. Thomas Gregersen

    It's a fake. One of the tweets from @JHabermas is a link to Habermas's lecture in Moscow November 16, 2009. But the title of his lecture is wrong. He talked about human dignity and human rights, and not "Religion, Law and Politics – On Political Justice in a Multicultural World Society" as originally planned and as stated in @JHabermas's tweet (and on the Russian website).

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  3. A German philosophy student

    I doubt that this is real. Firstly, the sentence "Sprechen Sie Deutsch, bitte?" does not seem to be a sentence uttered by a native German speaker (he would have simply asked "Sprechen Sie deutsch?" or said "Sprechen Sie bitte deutsch!"). Secondly -as far as I know- Habermas doesn't live in Frankfurt (anymore), but in Starnberg, what lets the sentence "Heute lebe ich in Frankfurt" seem suspect to me.

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  4. former grad student of McCarthy and Habermas

    This is clearly fake. Anyone who knows him and his writing well would agree that he would not waste his time with this format and that these messages just don't sound like him. Many of the links can also be found on the "Habermas and Rawls" blog (which, like Thomas Gregersen's "Habermas Forum" site, is really good).

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  5. Alex Leibowitz

    Real or not, you have to love the studied ambiguity in the posting: "Howard Zinn was a great loss for all of us".

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  6. Jonathan Stray

    It's not him. I just tracked him down and asked.

    http://jonathanstray.com/jurgen-habermas-says-hes-not-on-twitter

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  7. Andy Naaktgeboren

    Whups. I guess it was just fake then. I will resume judging books by their cover!

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