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'Rethinking Secularization' provides a philosophical appraisal of secularization in light of the recent re-emergence of religion in the past several decades. Rooted in both historical and conceptual analysis, it explores the adequacy of classical theories of secularization, as well as what might be offered in their place. In response to the simple secular faith of a global, world-historical emancipation from religion, the volume asks the question to what extent philosophy itself has nourished and inspired these kinds of prophecies. As a result, a more sophisticated view of secularization emerges, both more interesting and significant than the simple linear process it is often made out to be. Spanning a wide historical spectrum from the conceptual origin of secularity in Augustine and Aquinas to the secularization theories of contemporary philosophers like Marcel Gauchet and Charles Taylor, 'Rethinking Secularization' examines philosophy's own relationship to religion and modernity today. The book would appeal to a wide range of readers in philosophy, the sociology of culture, religious studies, and intellectual history.
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HERBERT DE VRIESE (1973) is assistant and PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Antwerp. His main fields of interest are critique of metaphysics and philosophy of culture, with a special focus on nineteenth-century German philosophy, particularly Young Hegelianism. He is co-editor of 1830-1848. The End of Metaphysics as a Transformation of Culture (Leuven: Peeters, 2003) and The Reason of Terror. Philosophical Responses to Terrorism (Leuven: Peeters, 2006). Currently he is preparing a dissertation on the phenomenon of 'pure criticism' within Young Hegelianism. GARY GABOR (1980) is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Fordham University. His main field of research is ancient philosophy. He has previously published on Aristotle and Lucretius and presented on topics including the history of Neoplatonism, logic, and natural reason in medieval poetry. He is currently preparing a dissertation on Neoplatonic logic in the Aristotelian commentators, and will be preparing an English translation of Boethius's commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge as a Fulbright scholar in Leuven, Belgium, for 2009-10. His contributions in this volume are dedicated to his daughter Elizabeth.
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- PublisherNot Avail
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1443811734
- ISBN 13 9781443811736
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages405
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