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'''Oskar Reinhard Negt''' ({{IPA-de|ˈneːkt}}; 1 August 1934 – 2 February 2024) was a German philosopher and [[Critical theory|critical]] social theorist. He was a professor of sociology at [[Leibniz University Hannover]] from 1972 to 2002, regarded as one of Germany's most prominent social scientists.<ref name="Steidl" />
 
Negt studied law and philosophy in the [[University of Göttingen]] and the [[Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main|University of Frankfurt]] with [[Theodor Adorno]], and was an assistant of [[Jürgen Habermas]] at the [[Universität Frankfurt]]. Negt is known for his long running collaboration with the filmmaker and visual artist [[Alexander Kluge]]. His focus was on the education of workers as political action, believing that democracy was a form of government that had to be learned.
 
== Life and career ==