The Liberating Power of Symbols: Philosophical Essays
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In this collection, Jurgen Habermas engages with a wide range of twentieth-centurythinkers. The essays display Habermas's appreciation for various intellectual traditions, hisability to distill the essence of other authors' work, and his outstanding critical powers.Habermashas described these essays as "fragments of a history of contemporary philosophy." They includeexplorations of the work of Ernst Cassirer, Karl Jaspers, and Gershom Scholem, as well as responsesto friends and colleagues such as Karl-Otto Apel, writer and filmmaker Alexander Kluge, and MichaelThuenissen. The book also includes pieces on the theologian Johann Baptist Metz and the Finnishphilosopher Georg Henrik von Wright.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0262582058
ISBN13:9780262582056
Release Date:March 2001
Publisher:MIT Press (MA)
Length:136 Pages
Weight:0.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Age Range:22 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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