 A similar process of partial appropriation has been characteristic also of the philosophers who paid serious attention to Humboldt’s views, such as Ernst Cassirer (1923–29), Martin Heidegger (1927, 1959), and more recently Bruno Liebrucks (1965), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1960, 1965, 1972), and Jürgen Habermas (1985, 1988, 1991). It is only in the last decades that Humboldt’s philosophical and linguistic writings have become a focal point of attention in their own right. Linguists of various orientations, philosophers, historians and literary scholars of different nationalities alike have examined Humboldt’s philosophy and linguistic ideas by placing them into a variety of different contexts.