Oskar Negt

Oskar Negt (; born 1 August 1934 in Kapkeim, East Prussia) is a philosopher and critical social theorist. He is an emeritus professor of sociology at Leibniz University Hannover, and one of Germany's most prominent social scientists. Little of his work has been translated into English.

Negt studied law and philosophy in the University of Göttingen and the University of Frankfurt am Main as a student of Theodor Adorno, and was an assistant of Jürgen Habermas at the Universität Frankfurt. Negt is most-well known for his long running collaboration with the filmmaker and visual artist Alexander Kluge. Provided by Wikipedia