Charles Taylor,Cornel West,Judith Butler,Jürgen Habermas

The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere

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The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere represents a rare opportunity to experience a diverse group of preeminent philosophers confronting one pervasive contemporary concern: what role does—or should—religion play in our public lives? Reflecting on her recent work concerning state violence in Israel-Palestine, Judith Butler explores the potential of religious perspectives for renewing cultural and political criticism, while Jürgen Habermas, best known for his seminal conception of the public sphere, thinks through the ambiguous legacy of the concept of “the political” in contemporary theory. Charles Taylor argues for a radical redefinition of secularism, and Cornel West defends civil disobedience and emancipatory theology. Eduardo Mendieta and Jonathan VanAntwerpen detail the immense contribution of these philosophers to contemporary social and political theory, and an afterword by Craig Calhoun places these attempts to reconceive the significance of both religion and the secular in the context of contemporary national and international politics.
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175 printed pages
Original publication
2011
Publication year
2011
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  • Diego Ospinahas quoted4 years ago
    Claude Lefort appeals to the difference between le politique (the political) and la politique (politics) in order to make us aware “that any society which forgets it religious basis is laboring under the illusion of pure self-immanence.”
  • Diego Ospinahas quoted4 years ago
    At least for some contemporary French and Italian philosophers, in the tradition of Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, and Hannah Arendt, and for some students of Jacques Derrida, the classical concept of “the political” serves as an antidote against those depoliticizing tendencies of the age (let me only mention Ernesto Laclau, Giorgio Agamben, Claude Lefort, and Jean-Luc Nancy).
  • Diego Ospinahas quoted4 years ago
    ccording to this interpretation, politics as a means of democratic self-determination has become as impossible as it is superfluous.

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