Butler / Habermas / Taylor The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-231-52725-5
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm

Reihe: A Columbia / SSRC Book

Autoren/Hrsg.

Butler, Judith

Habermas, Jurgen

Taylor, Charles

West, Cornel

Mendieta, Eduardo

VanAntwerpen, Jonathan

Weitere Mitwirkende

Calhoun, Craig

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Dekonstruktivismus, Strukturalismus, Poststrukturalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere
Eduardo Mendieta and Jonathan VanAntwerpen
1. "The Political": The Rational Meaning of a Questionable Inheritance of Political Theology
Jürgen Habermas
2. Why We Need a Radical Redefinition of Secularism
Charles Taylor
Dialogue: Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor
3. Is Judaism Zionism?
Judith Butler
4. Prophetic Religion and the Future of Capitalist Civilization
Cornel West
Dialogue: Judith Butler and Cornel West
Concluding Discussion: Butler, Habermas, Taylor, West
Afterword
Craig Calhoun

Über Autor(innen)

Judith Butler is the Maxine Eliot Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and ComparativeLiterature at the University of California at Berkeley. Her books include Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death, and Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France.

Jürgen Habermas is a German philosopher and sociologist. His recent works include The Future of Human Nature, The Divided West, and Between Naturalism and Religion: Philosophical Essays.

Charles Taylor is a Canadian philosopher and professor emeritus of political science and philosophy at McGill University and a recipient of the Templeton Prize and the Kyoto Prize. His recent books include Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited, Modern Social Imaginaries, and A Secular Age.

Cornel West is Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton University, where he teaches in the Center for African American studies and the Department of Religion. His recent books include Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism and Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud.

Eduardo Mendieta is professor of philosophy at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and the author of The Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy and Global Fragments: Globalizations, Latinamericanisms, and Critical Theory.

Jonathan VanAntwerpen is director of the program on religion and the public sphere at the Social Science Research Council, a visiting scholar at New York University's Institute for Public Knowledge, and coeditor of Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age.

Craig Calhoun is president of the Social Science Research Council and University Professor of the Social Sciences at New York University. His most recent works are Nations Matter: Culture, History, and the Cosmopolitan Dream and an edited collection titled Robert K. Merton: Sociology of Science and Sociology as Science.