Time and Transcendence
Gabriel Motzkin
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Paperback. Series: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HB; HPC; HPCF; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 525.
This book investigates one aspect of the story of how our religiously-oriented culture became a secular one. It concentrates on the conflicts enveloping the attitude to the past from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century. The background argument is that the way the process of secularization occurred in one particular religious context, the Roman Catholic one, was determinative for the possibility of something such as secular culture, and hence for both the modem secular attitude to the past and the modem religious one. In recent years a spate of scholarship has suggested that the expanded version of Weber's ... Read more
This book investigates one aspect of the story of how our religiously-oriented culture became a secular one. It concentrates on the conflicts enveloping the attitude to the past from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century. The background argument is that the way the process of secularization occurred in one particular religious context, the Roman Catholic one, was determinative for the possibility of something such as secular culture, and hence for both the modem secular attitude to the past and the modem religious one. In recent years a spate of scholarship has suggested that the expanded version of Weber's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
322
Condition
New
Series
Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture
Number of Pages
309
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789401051064
SKU
V9789401051064
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