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The Disclosure of Politics: Struggles Over the Semantics of Secularization
Maria Lara
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Hardback. Series: New Directions in Critical Theory. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM2; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
Postmodern political critiques speak of the death of ideology, the end of history, and the postsecular return of religious attitudes, yet radical conservative theorists such as Mark Lilla argue religion and politics are inextricably intertwined. Returning much-needed uncertainty to debates over the political while revitalizing the very terms in which they are defined, Maria Pia Lara explores the ambiguity of secularization and the theoretical potential of a structural break between politics and religion. For Lara, secularization means three things: the translation of religious semantics into politics; a transformation of religious notions into political ideas; and the reoccupation of a ... Read more
Postmodern political critiques speak of the death of ideology, the end of history, and the postsecular return of religious attitudes, yet radical conservative theorists such as Mark Lilla argue religion and politics are inextricably intertwined. Returning much-needed uncertainty to debates over the political while revitalizing the very terms in which they are defined, Maria Pia Lara explores the ambiguity of secularization and the theoretical potential of a structural break between politics and religion. For Lara, secularization means three things: the translation of religious semantics into politics; a transformation of religious notions into political ideas; and the reoccupation of a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
New Directions in Critical Theory
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231162807
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V9780231162807
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About Maria Lara
Maria Pia Lara teaches moral and political philosophy at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City. She is a renowned and influential public intellectual and has published many articles on the subjects of critical theory, moral philosophy, and politics. She is also the author of Narrating Evil: A Postmetaphysical Theory of Reflective Judgment and Moral Textures and the editor of ... Read more
Reviews for The Disclosure of Politics: Struggles Over the Semantics of Secularization
Skillfully employing the tools of 'conceptual history,' Maria Pia Lara maps the convoluted discourse of secularization in Carl Schmitt, Hans Blumenberg, Karl Lowith, Hannah Arendt, Jurgen Habermas, and the father of Begriffsgeschichte himself, Reinhart Koselleck. The result is not only a masterful vindication of a method but also a challenge to the glib assumption that we have reached a postsecular ... Read more