... of secularization, a displacement of religion by art when it comes to the construction of a critical audience. “Do we still have the Public and the Fatherland of the Ancients?” Herder French Revolution Germany Herder Johann Gottfried von Language Nationalism Abbt Thomas Hanseatic League Sweden Anderson...

... knowledge and the effect of this interaction on ancient politics and philosophy. He then follows the secularization of the economy in liberal and neoliberal theory. Leshem draws on Hannah Arendt’s history of politics and Michel Foucault’s genealogy of economy and philosophy. He consults exegetical...

... on a desymbolization, the reduction of the transcendent to the immanent and the secularization of social relations. To this end, the chapter considers the problem posed to the Young Hegelians by the insistence of Friedrich Schelling and his Romantic followers that the real is not only, or truly, the rational; how...

...Charles Taylor discusses the applicability of his book A Secular Age to the world outside the West. civil rights movement Gandhi Mahatma King Martin Luther Jr nonviolent civil disobedience Orange Revolution rights secularization Velvet Revolution Islam Latin Christendom...

...This chapter examines Hans Blumenberg's account of secularization in his book The Legitimacy of the Modern Age. The manuscript was first written in 1966, but following critical responses from Karl Löwith, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and others, it was revised and finally published in 1976...

...This chapter examines Jürgen Habermas' sociological and historical-political writings about secularization and the public sphere and shows how they can be framed as his version of conceptual history. It argues that his formulation of a new political concept of justice as social inclusion can...

...This chapter is about the massive processes of urbanization in the developing countries, when religious peasants brought their feelings in the cities. religion s return of religion desecularization Casanova José Croce Benedetto Fontenelle Bernard de Rémond René secularization Afghanistan...

...Taylor responds to the preceding essays, questioning the applicability of secularism. Kaviraj Sudipta Cārvākas Epicureanism forced emigration Greece Grotius Hugo immanent frame IF India providential deism subtraction stories Boyle Robert Durga Pūjā festival elites globalization...

... argues that the categories of critique and emancipation are innovative or disclosive; it discusses Koselleck's analysis of what, specifically, they disclose. It shows how those categories have shaped the future of politics and democracy. Löwith Karl Schmitt Carl Secularization Critique and Crisis...

... of this struggle, as it has played out in the university context, begins with the advent of universities, as we know them today, in the twelfth century. In the latter part of the eighteenth century, there emerged a brief period of relative secularization of the American college as part of the Enlightenment...

... subjectivity can be described as the transformation, secularization, and psychologization of the genres of the conversion narrative and the spiritual autobiography, and it can be situated in the context of the history of the declaration of love and the codification of intimacy. The chapter examines what...

...This chapter examines the issue of canonization and how it intersects with the problem of secularization by focusing on the invention of Søren Kierkegaard as the forebear of existentialism. More specifically, it looks at the invention of anxiety: the separation of this central concept...

... are not isolated events, but rather part of a broader phenomenon, an eruption of intense religiosity in tension and opposition to modern sensibilities. It can be suggested that Enlightenment is needed as it marks the most dramatic step toward secularization and rationalism. The chapter briefly elaborates on three...

... essendi Death Birth Hobbes Thomas Comedy Passio essendi Sublime Hell Cosmopolis Ghetto Universal Particular political theology secularization Why open on the intimate universal with religion? In our culture, do we not come across a diffidence, even allergy, toward respectful rumination...

...This introductory chapter considers recent debates concerning the meaning of secularization. It cites the need to first trace the genealogy of the term and identify the relevant political actors involved in the development of secularism, when they began to use the term as they did, and why...

... for all her essays on secularization. Second, it focuses on how, in On Revolution, she rescues the Roman concept of authority as foundational and connects it to her model of the American revolution. Third, it shows how she uses the method of political disclosure by taking religious images...

... Postsecularization Secularization Butler Judith Lafont Christina Palti Elias Arendt Hannah Cortés José María Donoso de Bonald Louis Plato Political theology Blumenberg Hans Kateb George The Legitimacy of the Modern Age Blumenberg Löwith Karl Philosophy of History Schmitt Carl Secular disposition...

... the political while revitalizing the very terms in which they are defined, the book explores the ambiguity of secularization and the theoretical potential of a structural break between politics and religion. Secularization means three things: the translation of religious semantics into politics...