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 Jas...
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Preface.
Chapter 1: The Liberating Power of Symbols: Ernst Cassirer’s
Humanistic Legacy and the Warburg Library.
Chapter 2: The Clash of Beliefs: Karl Jaspers on th...
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J?rgen Habermas is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt.