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Jürgen Habermas, Also a History of Philosophy, Vol: II: The Occidental Constellation of Faith and Knowledge, Ciaran Cronin (trans.), Polity Press, 2024, 581 pp., $45.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781509545179.
Reviewed by Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley
Reviewed by Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley
When first asked to write this review, I hesitated because of the prospect of focusing only on the middle volume of a three-volume work (carved out of the original two in German).[1] It seemed like trying to judge a performance of Tosca based solely on the act set in Scarpia’s rooms in the Farnese Palace. But I quickly realized that it would be even more of a challenge to do justice to the entire sweep of Also a History of Philosophy, an extraordinary more than 1700-page reconstruction of the on-going dialogue between knowledge and faith in Western culture from the so-called axial age, when the great religions of the world first coalesced, to the 19th-century search for a post-metaphysical idea of…
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