The Liberating Power of SymbolsIn this new collection of lectures and essays Jrgen 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