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The Liberating Power of Symbols: Philosophical Essays

By Peter Dews , Jurgen Habermas

Book information

Publisher
The MIT Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0262582058, 9780262582056
Open Library ID
OL9570098M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6596475 bytes)
Series
Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
Edition
1st MIT Press Ed
Pages
137\137
Time added
2011-01-26 19:25:26

Description

In this collection, Jurgen Habermas engages with a wide range of twentieth-century thinkers. The essays display Habermas's appreciation for various intellectual traditions, his ability to distill the essence of other authors' work, and his outstanding critical powers. Habermas has described these essays as "fragments of a history of contemporary philosophy." They include explorations of the work of Ernst Cassirer, Karl Jaspers, and Gershom Scholem, as well as responses to friends and colleagues such as Karl-Otto Apel, writer and filmmaker Alexander Kluge, and Michael Thuenissen. The book also includes pieces on the theologian Johann Baptist Metz and the Finnish philosopher Georg Henrik von Wright.

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