As long as Philipp Felsch can remember, Jürgen Habermas has been around: as an admonishing voice of reason, as a spokesperson for the culture of remembrance, as the son of his grandparents' neighbors in Gummersbach.

Is the philosopher's intellectual supremacy coming to an end today, or are his ideas gaining new explosiveness in the crisis of our "turning point"?

Felsch reads through an almost unmanageable oeuvre, follows its author into the intellectual battle zone of the Federal Republic and travels to Starnberg to meet Habermas for tea. The result is not only a portrait of a fascinatingly contradictory thinker, but also of the era to which he lent his face. (Publisher)