Knowledge and Human Interests

✍ Scribed by Jürgen Habermas

Publisher: Beacon Press
Year: 1972
Tongue: English
Leaves: 357
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

"For those concerned with the relationships between thought and action, KNOWLEDGE AND HUMAN INTERESTS will quickly be recognized as a brilliant book -- and a bold outline for a new social theory." (Times Literary Supplement)

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