Discoursing the Post-secular: Essays on the Habermasian Post-secular Turn

Discoursing the Post-secular: Essays on the Habermasian Post-secular Turn
ISBN-10
3643501528
ISBN-13
9783643501523
Category
History
Pages
178
Language
English
Published
2010
Publisher
LIT Verlag Münster
Authors
Aakash Singh, Péter Losonczi

Description

This collection of fresh and lively essays analyzes the Habermasian post-secular turn as it has been evolving over the last decade triggering intensive debates in social and political theory, but at the same time aims to situate the arising postsecular discourse(s) within the larger intellectual environment shaped by the complex influence of the alleged "return" of religion or the religious. The volume includes studies from as diverse fields as cultural theory, social theory, political philosophy, and theory of religion, as well as theology and bioethics. Key issues such as tolerance, the nature and challenges of modernity, pluralism, knowledge and faith, human dignity, ritual, idolatry or transcendence are brought into the discussion in an inventive way, and Habermas's work is reflected upon in comparison with figures like Levinas, Vattimo, and Agnes Heller.

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