Jürgen Habermas - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

This academic criticized Ernst Nolte’s views on the Holocaust in the Historian’s Quarrel. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this academic who earned his habilitation with a book that traced the replacement of representative publicity by rational-critical debate in London coffeehouses, Parisian salons, and German “table societies.”

ANSWER: Jürgen Habermas

[10e] Later scholars have applied Habermas’s theory of the public sphere to the coffeehouse culture of this city. The writer Peter Altenberg had his mail delivered to the Café Central in this Habsburg capital.

ANSWER: Vienna [or Wien]

[10h] During his time in Vienna, this man was dismissively referred to as “Mr. Bronstein, sitting over there in the Café Central.” This man adopted one of his pen names, Antid Oto, by choosing a random word from an Italian dictionary.

ANSWER: Leon Trotsky [or Lev Davidovich Trotsky]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	1	20.00	100%	0%	100%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	13.33	100%	22%	11%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	9	13.33	100%	22%	11%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	15.00	100%	33%	17%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	20.00	100%	0%	100%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	14.29	86%	29%	29%
UK	Main Site	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	16.67	89%	56%	22%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	25%	50%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley D	10	10	0	20
Stanford B	Berkeley B	0	10	0	10
Stanford A	Berkeley C	10	10	0	20
UBC B	McGill A	0	10	10	20
Central Florida B	Central Florida C	0	10	0	10
Florida A	Florida B	0	10	0	10
Central Florida A	Florida C	10	10	10	30
Duke	William and Mary	0	10	0	10
NC State B	North Carolina B	0	10	10	20
NC State A	North Carolina C	0	10	0	10
South Carolina B	VCU	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	North Carolina A	10	10	0	20
Virginia	Virginia Tech B	10	10	0	20
Chicago B	Notre Dame A	0	10	0	10
Chicago C	Illinois B	0	10	0	10
Purdue B	Chicago D	10	10	10	30
Chicago E	Notre Dame B	0	10	0	10
Illinois A	Indiana A	10	10	0	20
Northwestern B	Illinois C	0	10	0	10
Northwestern D	Indiana B	0	10	0	10
Northwestern C	Indiana C	0	10	0	10
Purdue A	Chicago A	0	10	0	10
James Madison A	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
Liberty A	South Carolina A	0	10	0	10
Brandeis B	Bowdoin A	0	10	0	10
Brown	Bowdoin B	10	10	0	20
MIT	Brandeis A	10	10	0	20
Harvard A	Dartmouth A	0	10	0	10
Dartmouth B	Southern Connecticut State	0	10	10	20
Harvard B	Yale	0	10	0	10
James Madison B	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
Washington B	Carleton College	10	10	0	20
Claremont	Iowa State	0	10	0	10
Minnesota A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Texas A	Murray State A	0	10	10	20
Texas B	Texas A&M A	0	10	10	20
Alabama A	Tennessee B	0	10	0	10
Bruin	WashU B	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech D	Louisville A	0	10	0	10
Louisville B	Kentucky	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech B	Mississipi State	0	10	0	10
Tennessee A	Sewanee	0	10	10	20
WashU A	Vanderbilt B	10	10	10	30
Bristol	LSE	10	10	0	20
Imperial A	Cambridge B	10	10	0	20
Cambridge C	Oxford A	10	10	0	20
Durham	City St. George's	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh B	Imperial C	0	10	0	10
Oxford B	UCL	10	10	0	20
John Jay	Catholic	10	10	0	20
Maryland A	Columbia A	10	10	0	20
Columbia C	Georgetown	10	10	0	20
Maryland B	Vassar	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	NYU A	10	10	0	20
NYU B	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	10	20
NYU C	Johns Hopkins B	0	10	10	20
Rutgers B	Rutgers A	0	0	0	0
Maryland C	Swarthmore	10	10	0	20
Washington A	Missouri A	0	10	0	10
Cornell C	Binghamton A	0	10	10	20
Rochester	Binghamton B	0	10	0	10
Penn State	Cornell A	10	10	10	30
RIT	Cornell B	0	10	0	10