Poetic Interaction: Language, Freedom, Reason

by John McCumber

Book Overview

Poetic Interaction presents an original approach to the history of philosophy in order to elaborate a fresh theory that accounts for the place freedom in the Western philosophical tradition. In his thorough analysis of the aesthetic theories of Hegel, Heidegger, and Kant, John McCumber shows that the interactionist perspective recently put forth by J rgen Habermas was in fact already present in some form in the German Enlightenment and in Heidegger's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226557049
• ISBN13: 9780226557045
• Release Date: June 1989
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"