The Liberating Power of Symbols Philosophical Essays
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- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Mit Pr
- Publish date: 06/01/2001
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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.
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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 George Henrik von Wright.
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