This very important new quantity brings jointly Jürgen Habermas's key writings on faith and spiritual trust. In those essays, Habermas explores the kin among Christian and Jewish inspiration, on one hand, and the Western philosophical culture at the different. He frequently methods those concerns via severe encounters with the paintings of others, together with Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Johann Baptist Metz, and Gershom Scholem.In an creation written specially for this quantity, Eduardo Mendieta locations Habermas's engagement with faith within the context of his paintings as an entire. Mendieta additionally discusses Habermas's writings on the subject of Jewish Messianism and the Frankfurt institution, exhibiting how those essays replicate a huge but usually ignored size of severe concept. the amount concludes with an unique prolonged interview that examines Habermas's present perspectives on faith and glossy society.
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