Disclosure of Politics - Struggles Over the Semantics of Secularization

Maria Pia Lara explores the ambiguity of secularization and the theoretical potential of a structural break between politics and religion. For Lara, secularization means the translation of religious semantics into politics; a transformation of religious notions into political ideas; and the reoccupation of a space left void by changing political actors, one that gives rise to new conceptions of political interaction. Conceptual innovation redefines politics as a horizontal relationship between governments and the governed, better enabling societies (and political actors) to articulate meaning through action.

List of contents

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Semantics of Conceptual Change: The Emergence of the Concept of Emancipation2. The Model of Translation: From Religion to Politics3. Hans Blumenberg's Reoccupational Model: Conceptual Transformation4. Blumenberg's Second Model: The Persistence of Mythical Narratives5. Hannah Arendt's Model of the Autonomy of Politics: Semantic Innovation Through Religious Disclosure6. Reinhart Koselleck's Model of Secularization: The Enlightenment as Problematic7. Jurgen Habermas's Innovation Model: Bringing Justice Into the Domain of Politics8. The Disclosure of Politics RevisitedBibliographyIndex

About the author

Maria Pia Lara teaches moral and political philosophy at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City

Summary

María Pía Lara explores the ambiguity of secularization and the theoretical potential of a structural break between politics and religion.

Product details

• Authors: Maraia Paia Lara, Maria Lara, Maria Pia Lara, María Pía Lara
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.08.2013
• EAN: 9780231162807
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16280-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: New Directions in Critical Theory
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, Political science & theory, Religion & politics, Religion and Politics, Political science and theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State