The Liberating Power Of Symbols

Author : Jürgen Habermas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745694330
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Liberating Power of Symbols written by Jürgen Habermas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Edward Skidelsky
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400828945
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ernst Cassirer written by Edward Skidelsky and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first English-language intellectual biography of the German-Jewish philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945), a leading figure on the Weimar intellectual scene and one of the last and finest representatives of the liberal-idealist tradition. Edward Skidelsky traces the development of Cassirer's thought in its historical and intellectual setting. He presents Cassirer, the author of The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, as a defender of the liberal ideal of culture in an increasingly fragmented world, and as someone who grappled with the opposing forces of scientific positivism and romantic vitalism. Cassirer's work can be seen, Skidelsky argues, as offering a potential resolution to the ongoing conflict between the "two cultures" of science and the humanities--and between the analytic and continental traditions in philosophy. The first comprehensive study of Cassirer in English in two decades, this book will be of great interest to analytic and continental philosophers, intellectual historians, political and cultural theorists, and historians of twentieth-century Germany.

Author : Peter E. Gordon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674064178
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Continental Divide written by Peter E. Gordon and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1929, Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer met for a public conversation in Davos, Switzerland. They were arguably the most important thinkers in Europe, and their exchange touched upon the most urgent questions in the history of philosophy: What is human finitude? What is objectivity? What is culture? What is truth? Over the last eighty years the Davos encounter has acquired an allegorical significance, as if it marked an ultimate and irreparable rupture in twentieth-century Continental thought. Here, in a reconstruction at once historical and philosophical, Peter Gordon reexamines the conversation, its origins and its aftermath, resuscitating an event that has become entombed in its own mythology. Through a close and painstaking analysis, Gordon dissects the exchange itself to reveal that it was at core a philosophical disagreement over what it means to be human. But Gordon also shows how the life and work of these two philosophers remained closely intertwined. Their disagreement can be understood only if we appreciate their common point of departure as thinkers of the German interwar crisis, an era of rebellion that touched all of the major philosophical movements of the dayÑlife-philosophy, philosophical anthropology, neo-Kantianism, phenomenology, and existentialism. As Gordon explains, the Davos debate would continue to both inspire and provoke well after the two men had gone their separate ways. It remains, even today, a touchstone of philosophical memory. This clear, riveting book will be of great interest not only to philosophers and to historians of philosophy but also to anyone interested in the great intellectual ferment of Europe's interwar years.

Author : Georgina Tsolidis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848880820
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identities in Transition written by Georgina Tsolidis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hans Joas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197642179
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Spell of Freedom written by Hans Joas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do the history of religion and the history of political freedom relate to each other? The variety of views on this subject in philosophy, the humanities and social sciences, and the public is broad and confusing. But the grandiose synthesis in which Hegel brought together Christianity and political freedom is still an enormous source of orientation for many-despite or even because of the influential provocations of Friedrich Nietzsche. As Hans Joas shows in Under the Spell of Freedom, a different view has developed in the religious thinking of the twentieth century based on a conception of history that is more open to the future and on a concept of freedom that is richer than that of Hegel. Using sixteen selected thinkers, Joas deconstructs the grand Hegelian narrative of human history as the self-realization of the idea of freedom, setting as a counterpart the sketches of a theory of the emergence of moral universalism. Further, taking the classical views of Hegel and his emphasis on the role of Protestant Christianity and the extremely negative views about Christianity in the work of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, Joas elaborates on this new understanding of religion and freedom, which avoids both Eurocentrism and an intellectualist view of religious faith and practice. The result is a forceful plea for a global history of moral universalism. Under the Spell of Freedom is an important step in this direction.

Author : Frederick William Dillistone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Symbols written by Frederick William Dillistone and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dieter Freundlieb
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047404947
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Theory After Habermas written by Dieter Freundlieb and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book engage with the broad range of Jürgen Habermas' work including politics and the public sphere, nature, aesthetics, the linguistic turn and the paradigm of intersubjectivity.

Author : Doug Morrison-Cleary
Publisher : OSL Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacramental Life Volume 15.4 written by Doug Morrison-Cleary and published by OSL Publications. This book was released on 2003-10-18 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacramental Life Volume 15.4 (Fall 2003) Founded in 1988, Sacramental Life is one of two journals published by the Order of Saint Luke (OSL Publications). It focuses on the emerging and historical practices of Christian worship. Print distribution is to the members of the Order globally, as well as to a number of theology departments and seminary libraries in the United States.

Author : Warren Breckman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023114394X
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventures of the Symbolic written by Warren Breckman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warren Breckman critically revisits thrilling experiments in the aftermath of Marxism.

Author : Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350030589
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Susanne Langer written by Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive study of one of the most insightful and fertile but also most neglected philosophers of the twentieth century, Susanne Langer. Failure to recognise Langer's seminal philosophical sources has led to frequent misinterpretations and misunderstandings of her unique philosophical thought. Beginning with an overview of Langer's life and education, this study provides a much-needed explanation of how Langer's thinking was shaped by four seminal sources: her mentors Henry Sheffer and Alfred North Whitehead and the European philosophers Ernst Cassirer and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Langer's ability to unite seemingly disparate fields such logic, art, and embodied cognition around the notion of symbolic form, places aesthetics not at the margins of philosophy but at its very centre. By locating Langer's work in the broader context of major developments in twentieth-century European and American philosophy, Dengerink Chaplin shows how she was often ahead of her time. Shedding new light on Langer as an American philosopher whose innovative thought crosses the customary boundaries between analytic and continental philosophy, this book confirms why she continues to have relevance today.