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Between Naturalism and Religion - Philosophical Essays

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Informationen zum Autor Jürgen Habermas is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt. Klappentext Two countervailing trends mark the intellectual tenor of our age - the spread of naturalistic worldviews and religious orthodoxies. Advances in biogenetics, brain research, and robotics are clearing the way for the penetration of an objective scientific self-understanding of persons into everyday life. For philosophy, this trend is associated with the challenge of scientific naturalism. At the same time, we are witnessing an unexpected revitalization of religious traditions and the politicization of religious communities across the world. From a philosophical perspective, this revival of religious energies poses the challenge of a fundamentalist critique of the principles underlying the modern Wests postmetaphysical understanding of itself.The tension between naturalism and religion is the central theme of this major new book by Jürgen Habermas. On the one hand he argues for an appropriate naturalistic understanding of cultural evolution that does justice to the normative character of the human mind. On the other hand, he calls for an appropriate interpretation of the secularizing effects of a process of social and cultural rationalization increasingly denounced by the champions of religious orthodoxies as a historical development peculiar to the West. These reflections on the enduring importance of religion and the limits of secularism under conditions of postmetaphysical reason set the scene for an extended treatment the political significance of religious tolerance and for a fresh contribution to current debates on cosmopolitanism and a constitution for international society. Zusammenfassung Two countervailing trends mark the intellectual tenor of our age - the spread of naturalistic worldviews and religious orthodoxies. Advances in biogenetics, brain research, and robotics are clearing the way for the penetration of an objective scientific self-understanding of persons into everyday life. For philosophy, this trend is associated with the challenge of scientific naturalism. At the same time, we are witnessing an unexpected revitalization of religious traditions and the politicization of religious communities across the world. From a philosophical perspective, this revival of religious energies poses the challenge of a fundamentalist critique of the principles underlying the modern Wests postmetaphysical understanding of itself.The tension between naturalism and religion is the central theme of this major new book by Jürgen Habermas. On the one hand he argues for an appropriate naturalistic understanding of cultural evolution that does justice to the normative character of the human mind. On the other hand, he calls for an appropriate interpretation of the secularizing effects of a process of social and cultural rationalization increasingly denounced by the champions of religious orthodoxies as a historical development peculiar to the West. These reflections on the enduring importance of religion and the limits of secularism under conditions of postmetaphysical reason set the scene for an extended treatment the political significance of religious tolerance and for a fresh contribution to current debates on cosmopolitanism and a constitution for international society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1 Part I The Intersubjective Constitution of Norm-governed Thought 9 1 Public Space and Political Public Sphere - The Biographical Roots of Two Motifs in my Thought 11 2 Communicative Action and the Detranscendentalized "Use of Reason" 24 3 On the Architectonics of Discursive Differentiation: A Brief Response to a Major Controversy 77 Part II Religious Pluralism and Civic Solidarity 99 4 Prepolitical Foundations of the Constitutional State? 101 5 Religion in the...

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Authors Habermas, J Habermas, J?rgen Habermas, Jurgen Habermas, Jürgen Habermas, Jurgen (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt) Habermas, J&, Jürgen Habermas
Assisted by Ciaran Cronin (Translation)
Publisher Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 28.03.2008
 
EAN 9780745638256
ISBN 978-0-7456-3825-6
No. of pages 344
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Philosophy
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous

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