| The Liberating Power of Symbols: Philosophical Essays Contributor(s): Habermas, Jürgen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0745625525 ISBN-13: 9780745625522 Publisher: Polity Press OUR PRICE: $26.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
| Dewey: 193 |
| LCCN: 2019304452 |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 6" W x 9" (0.50 lbs) 144 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Chronological Period - Modern |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |