The Liberating Power of Symbols: Philosophical Essays - Brossura

Habermas, Jurgen

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ISBN 10: 0262582058 ISBN 13: 9780262582056

Casa editrice: Mit Pr, 2001

Riassunto

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.

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• Editore: Mit Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0262582058
• ISBN 13: 9780262582056
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 136