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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