An Awareness of What is Missing, 1st Edition
Faith and Reason in a Post-secular Age
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
29 January 2010
Summary
In his recent writings on religion and secularization, Habermas has challenged reason to clarify its relation to religious experience and to engage religions in a constructive dialogue. Given the global challenges facing humanity, nothing is more dangerous than the refusal to communicate that we encounter today in different forms of religious and ideological fundamentalism.
Habermas argues that in order to engage in this dialogue, two conditions must be met: religion must accept the autho…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780745647210 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0745647219 |
| Author: | Jürgen Habermas |
| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Imprint: | Polity Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 29 January 2010 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 137mm x 211mm |
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Critics Review
“Social scientists spent most of the past century trying to work out why the world was failing to live up to their expectations: why was there still so much rural idiocy, and why was religion refusing to go away? No one has brought more intellectual heft to these problems than Jürgen Habermas.”
Jonathan Rée, New Humanist
“A very significant contribution to the renewed faith–reason dialogue.”
Reviews in Religion and Theology
“The book contains five insightful essays and begins with an excellent overiew of Habermas’s new view of religion, its development, and the subsequent discussion.”
The Ecumenist
“The value of this slim but suggestive volume lies as much in what it does — bringing the voices of reason and faith together in respectful debate — as in what it says. If not more so.”
Common Knowledge
Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt.
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