Calhoun / Mendieta / VanAntwerpen Habermas and Religion

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-7456-7426-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 340 Seiten, E-Book

To the surprise of many readers, Jürgen Habermas has recentlymade religion a major theme of his work. Emphasizing bothreligion's prominence in the contemporary public sphere and itspotential contributions to critical thought, Habermas's engagementwith religion has been controversial and exciting, putting much ofhis own work in fresh perspective and engaging key themes inphilosophy, politics and social theory.
Habermas argues that the once widely accepted hypothesis ofprogressive secularization fails to account for the multipletrajectories of modernization in the contemporary world. He callsattention to the contemporary significance of "postmetaphysical"thought and "postsecular" consciousness - even in Western societiesthat have embraced a rationalistic understanding of publicreason.
Habermas and Religion presents a series of original andsustained engagements with Habermas's writing on religion in thepublic sphere, featuring new work and critical reflections fromleading philosophers, social and political theorists, andanthropologists. Contributors to the volume respond both toHabermas's ambitious and well-developed philosophical project andto his most recent work on religion. The book closes with anextended response from Habermas - itself a major statement from oneof today's most important thinkers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Calhoun, Craig

Mendieta, Eduardo

VanAntwerpen, Jonathan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations vii
Editors' Introduction 1
Part I Rationalization, Secularisms, and Modernities
1 Exploring the Postsecular: Three Meanings of "theSecular" and Their Possible Transcendence 27
José Casanova
2 The Anxiety of Contingency: Religion in a Secular Age 49
María Herrera Líma
3 Is the Postsecular a Return to Political Theology? 72
María Pía Lara
4 An Engagement with Jurgen Habermas on PostmetaphysicalPhilosophy, Religion, and Political Dialogue 92
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Part II The Critique of Reason and the Unfinished Project ofEnlightenment
5 The Burdens of Modernized Faith and Postmetaphysical Reason inHabermas's "Unfinished Project of
Enlightenment" 115
Thomas McCarthy
6 Having One's Cake and Eating It Too: Habermas'sGenealogy of Postsecular Reason 132
Amy Allen
7 Forgetting Isaac: Faith and the Philosophical Impossibility ofa Postsecular Society 154
J. M. Bernstein
Part III World Society, Global Public Sphere, and DemocraticDeliberation
8 A Postsecular Global Order? The Pluralism of Forms of Life andCommunicative Freedom 179
James Bohman
9 Global Religion and the Postsecular Challenge 203
Hent de Vries
10 Religion and the Public Sphere: What are the DeliberativeObligations of Democratic Citizenship? 230
Cristina Lafont
11 Violating Neutrality? Religious Validity Claims andDemocratic Legitimacy 249
Maeve Cooke
Part IV Translating Religion, Communicative Freedom, andSolidarity
12 Sources of Morality in Habermas's Recent Work onReligion and Freedom 277
Matthias Fritsch
13 Solidarity with the Past and the Work of Translation:Reflections on Memory Politics and the Postsecular 301
Max Pensky
14 What Lacks is Feeling: Hume versus Kant and Habermas322
John Milbank
Reply to My Critics 347
Jürgen Habermas (Translated by Ciaran Cronin)
Appendix: Religion in Habermas's Work 391
Eduardo Mendieta
Notes and References 408
Bibliography of Works by Jürgen Habermas 465
Index 471

Über Autor(innen)

Craig Calhoun is Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Eduardo Mendieta is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Stony Brook.
Jonathan VanAntwerpen is Director of the Program on Religion and the Public Sphere at the Social Science Research Council, New York.