Matthew Specter is a historian of modern Europe and author of Habermas: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge, 2010). His second book, Atlantic Realisms: Political Thought and Foreign Policy, 1880–1980, is forthcoming from Stanford University Press. He teaches in the Global Studies Program and History Department at UC Berkeley, and is associate editor of the journal History and Theory.

Matthew Specter

Habermas in German, European, North Atlantic, and Global Perspective

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry

Philosophy &amp; Religion

Matthew Specter is a historian of modern Europe and author of Habermas: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge, 2010). His second book, Atlantic Realisms: Political Thought and Foreign Policy, 1880–1980, is forthcoming from Stanford University Press. He teaches in the Global Studies Program and History Department at UC Berkeley, and is associate editor of the journal History and Theory.