The Liberating Power Of Symbols

Author : Jürgen Habermas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745694337

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The Liberating Power of Symbols by Jürgen Habermas Pdf

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
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400828944

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Ernst Cassirer by Edward Skidelsky Pdf

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
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674064171

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Continental Divide by Peter E. Gordon Pdf

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 : Hans Joas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780197642177

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Under the Spell of Freedom by Hans Joas Pdf

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 : Georgina Tsolidis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848880825

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Identities in Transition by Georgina Tsolidis Pdf

Author : Frederick William Dillistone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015013248722

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The Power of Symbols by Frederick William Dillistone Pdf

Author : Dieter Freundlieb,Wayne Hudson,J. Rundell
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789047404941

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Critical Theory After Habermas by Dieter Freundlieb,Wayne Hudson,J. Rundell Pdf

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,Amy Beveridge,Cecelia A. Weakley,Frank Coats,Hoyt L. Hickman,Robert Jarboe,David L. Schriber,David Tripp
Publisher : OSL Publications
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Sacramental Life Volume 15.4 by Doug Morrison-Cleary,Amy Beveridge,Cecelia A. Weakley,Frank Coats,Hoyt L. Hickman,Robert Jarboe,David L. Schriber,David Tripp Pdf

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
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231143943

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Adventures of the Symbolic by Warren Breckman Pdf

Warren Breckman critically revisits thrilling experiments in the aftermath of Marxism.

Author : Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350030589

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The Philosophy of Susanne Langer by Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin Pdf

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.

Author : Aaron Tugendhaft
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351663779

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Baal and the Politics of Poetry by Aaron Tugendhaft Pdf

Baal and the Politics of Poetry provides a thoroughly new interpretation of the Ugaritic Baal Cycle that simultaneously inaugurates an innovative approach to studying ancient Near Eastern literature within the political context of its production. The book argues that the poem, written in the last decades of the Bronze Age, takes aim at the reigning political-theological norms of its day and uses the depiction of a divine world to educate its audience about the nature of human politics. By attuning ourselves to the specific historical context of this one poem, we can develop more nuanced appreciation of how poetry, politics, and religion have interacted—in antiquity, and beyond.

Author : Donald Phillip Verene
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780810127784

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The Origins of the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms by Donald Phillip Verene Pdf

The Origins of the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms marks the culmination of Donald Phillip Verene’s work on Ernst Cassirer and heralds a major step forward in the critical work on the twentieth-century philosopher. Verene argues that Cassirer’s philosophy of symbolic forms cannot be understood apart from a dialectic between the Kantian and Hegelian philosophy that lies within it. Verene takes as his departure point that Cassirer never wishes to argue Kant over Hegel. Instead he takes from each what he needs, realizing that philosophical idealism itself did not stop with Kant but developed to Hegel, and that much of what remains problematic in Kantian philosophy finds particular solutions in Hegel’s philosophy. Cassirer never replaces transcendental reflection with dialectical speculation, but he does transfer dialectic from a logic of illusion, that is, the form of thinking beyond experience as Kant conceives it in the Critique of Pure Reason, to a logic of consciousness as Hegel employs it in the Phenomenology of Spirit. Cassirer rejects Kant’s thing-in-itself but he also rejects Hegel’s Absolute as well as Hegel’s conception of Aufhebung. Kant and Hegel remain the two main characters on his stage, but they are accompanied by a large secondary cast, with Goethe in the foreground. Cassirer not only contributes to Goethe scholarship, but in Goethe he finds crucial language to communicate his assertions. Verene introduces us to the originality of Cassirer’s philosophy so that we may find access to the riches it contains.

Author : Ken Hirschkop
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192574626

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Linguistic Turns, 1890-1950 by Ken Hirschkop Pdf

Linguistic Turns rewrites the intellectual and cultural history of early twentieth-century Europe. In chapters that study the work of Saussure, Russell, Wittgenstein, Bakhtin, Benjamin, Cassirer, Shklovskii, the Russian Futurists, Ogden and Richards, Sorel, Gramsci, and others, it shows how European intellectuals came to invest 'language' with extraordinary force, at a time when the social and political order of the continent was itself in question. By examining linguistic turns in concert rather than in isolation, the volume changes the way we see them—no longer simply as moves in individual disciplines, but as elements of a larger constellation, held together by common concerns and anxieties. In a series of detailed readings, the volume reveals how each linguistic turn invested 'language as such' with powers that could redeem not just individual disciplines but Europe itself. It shows how, in the hands of different writers, language becomes a model of social and political order, a tool guaranteeing analytical precision, a vehicle of dynamic change, a storehouse of mythical collective energy, a template for civil society, and an image of justice itself. By detailing the force linguistic turns attribute to language, and the way in which they contrast 'language as such' with actual language, the volume dissects the investments made in words and sentences and the visions behind them. The constellation of linguistic turns is explored as an intellectual event in its own right and as the pursuit of social theory by other means.

Author : Sionaidh Douglas-Scott
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782251200

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Law after Modernity by Sionaidh Douglas-Scott Pdf

How can we characterise law and legal theory in the twenty-first century? Law After Modernity argues that we live in an age 'after Modernity' and that legal theory must take account of this fact. The book presents a dynamic analysis of law, which focusses on the richness and pluralism of law, on its historical embeddedness, its cultural contingencies, as well as acknowledging contemporary law's global and transnational dimensions. However, Law After Modernity also warns that the complexity, fragmentation, pluralism and globalisation of contemporary law may all too easily perpetuate injustice. In this respect, the book departs from many postmodern and pluralist accounts of law. Indeed, it asserts that the quest for justice becomes a crucial issue for law in the era of legal pluralism, and it investigates how it may be achieved. The approach is fresh, contextual and interdisciplinary, and, unusually for a legal theory work, is illustrated throughout with works of art and visual representations, which serve to re-enforce the messages of the book.

Author : David Guile,David Lambert,Michael J. Reiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317198185

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Sociology, Curriculum Studies and Professional Knowledge by David Guile,David Lambert,Michael J. Reiss Pdf

This volume brings together an international set of contributors in education research, policy and practice to respond to the influence the noted academic Professor Michael Young has had on sociology, curriculum studies and professional knowledge over the past fifty years, and still has on the field to this day. It provides a critical analysis of his work and the uses to which it has been put in the UK and internationally, discussing implications for debates on the purpose of education and how school curricula, as well as programmes in other educational settings, could be run and teaching undertaken, based on his contribution. Following Michael’s long and distinguished career – dating back to before Knowledge and Control: New Directions for the Sociology of Education, which Michael edited in 1971 – recent years have seen an upsurge in both academic and policy interest in his work, including the new concern he expressed for knowledge in his 2007 book Bringing Knowledge Back In. The book concludes with an appreciation and a response to the authors from Michael Young and a Coda from Charmian Cannon, who was on the Institute of Education panel that appointed Michael to his post in 1967. This timely book is a unique critique and celebration, written by experts whose own careers have been affected by Michael, and will appeal to all those with an interest in the work of Michael Young.