Habermas wrote much later (in 2008) that, at the time, the ceremony did not strike him as unusual but that, as the years passed, he came to the view that the form, place and progression of the service were odd. Frisch himself had drawn up the menu for the meal that followed. The mourners were made up mostly of people who had little time for church and religion. The ashes will be strewn somewhere.’ Two friends spoke but there was no priest and no blessing. Peter’s in Zurich … for their permission to place the coffin in the church during our memorial service. It stated, among other things: ‘We let our nearest speak, and without an “amen”. The service began with Karin Pilliod, Frisch’s partner, reading out a brief declaration written by the deceased. Peter’s Church in Zurich as long ago as April 9, 1991. In 2008 he wrote a celebrated essay, ‘An Awareness of What is Missing: Faith and Reason in a Post-Secular Age.’ The thrust of what he had to say first occurred to him after he had attended a memorial service for Max Frisch, the Swiss author and playwright, which was held in St. So far as I know, Jürgen Habermas set the ball rolling.
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