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An Awareness of What is Missing: Faith and Reason in a Post-secular Age
Jurgen Habermas
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Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 96 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 9. Weight in Grams: 254.
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.
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 authority of secular reason as the fallible results of the sciences and the universalistic egalitarianism in law and morality; and conversely, secular reason must not set ... Read more
In 2007 Habermas conducted a debate, under the title ‘An Awareness of What Is Missing', with philosophers from the Jesuit School for Philosophy in Munich. This volume includes Habermas's essay, the contributions of his interlocutors and Habermas's reply to them. It will be indispensable reading for anyone who wishes to understand one of the most urgent and intractable issues of our time.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745647203
SKU
V9780745647203
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About Jurgen Habermas
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt
Reviews for An Awareness of What is Missing: Faith and Reason in a Post-secular Age
"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 ... Read more