The Liberating Power of Symbols: Philosophical Essays - Brossura

Habermas, Jurgen

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ISBN 10: 0745625525 ISBN 13: 9780745625522

Casa editrice: Polity Pr, 2001

Riassunto

In this new collection of lectures and essays Jurgen Habermas engages with a wide range of figures in twentieth-century thought. The book displays once again his ability to capture the essence of a thinker's work, his feeling for the texture of intellectual traditions and his outstanding powers of critical assessment. Habermas has described these essays as 'fragments of a history of contemporary philosophy'. The volume includes explorations of the work of Ernst Cassirer, Karl Jaspers and Gershom Scholem, as well as reponses to friends and colleagues such as Michael Thuenissen, Karl-Otto Apel and the writer and film-maker Alexander Kluge. It also includes pieces on the Finnish philosopher Georg Henrik von Wright and the theologian Johann Baptist Metz. This new volume will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Habermas and twentieth-century philosophy.

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Recensione:

Jürgen Habermas has been awarded the prestigious ′Friedenspreis des deutschen Buchhandels′ prize for 2001

′The Liberating Power of Symbols carries on from where Habermas′s previous foray into modern European thought, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, left off. If the latter offered a trenchant critique of post–structuralism, the former concentrates on promising departures for contemporary philosophy ... These new books by Habermas will be indispensable for years to come [and will] undoubtedly make provocative reading.′ Anthony Elliott, The Australian

′This book is a must read for students interested in the power of symbols and how these can serve as mechanisms of suppression and emancipation. This is also a good book for those interested in the development of Habermas′ ideas, as many of the essays and lectures illustrate how he builds and validates his arguments.′ Millennium

L'autore:

J?rgen Habermas is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Polity Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0745625525
• ISBN 13: 9780745625522
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 130