description: 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.
language: English
title: The Liberating Power of Symbols: Philosophical Essays
titlecomplete: The Liberating Power of Symbols: Philosophical Essays (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
genres: Philosophy
ratings_count: 10
publisher: Mit Pr