Postmetaphysical Thinking Quotes

“From the structure of language comes the explanation of why the human spirit is condemned to an odyssey - why it first finds its way to itself only on a detour via a complete externalization in other things and in other humans. Only at the greatest distance from itself does it become conscious of itself in its irreplaceable singularity as an individuated being.”
― Jürgen Habermas, Postmetaphysical Thinking: Between Metaphysics and the Critique of Reason

“Contextualism is only the flipside of logocentrism.”
― Jürgen Habermas, Postmetaphysical Thinking: Philosophical Essays