The Post-Secular City The New Secularization Debate Paolo Costa

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Costa, Paolo, Author.

Series:

• Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society - Supplementa ; 2
• Schöningh, Fink and mentis Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2022.
• Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society Supplementa 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• laïcité.
• modernity.
• religion.
• post-colonialism.
• death of God.
• Charles Taylor.
• Jürgen Habermas.
• future of religion.
• culture wars.

Local Subjects:

• laïcité.
• modernity.
• religion.
• post-colonialism.
• death of God.
• Charles Taylor.
• Jürgen Habermas.
• future of religion.
• culture wars.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Paderborn Brill | Schöningh 2022

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Paolo Costa is a full-time researcher at the Center for Religious Studies of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Trento, Italy). He is a philosopher by training and the author of several books and articles in research fields such as philosophy of religion, moral philosophy, political philosophy, and philosophy of science. "La città post-secolare" was awarded the ESCT Book Prize: Theological Book of the Years 2019-2020.

Summary:

“The Post-Secular City” is the first attempt to systematically map and assess the recent debate about secularization.“The Post-Secular City” examines the alleged shift from a “secular” to a “post-secular” dispensation from the perspective of the ongoing de-construction of the secularization “theorem” (as Hans Blumenberg called it). Accordingly, the new secularization debate is described as being polarized between the “de-constructors” and the “maintainers” of the standard thesis of secularization. This is the assumption underlying an ambitious effort to map the field, which consists of a long introduction where “secularization” is analyzed as a deeply problematic concept-of-process and of eight chapters in which several protagonists of the recent debate are discussed as crucial junctions of a multidisciplinary conversation.

Contents:

• Preliminary Material / Paolo Costa
• Copyright page / Paolo Costa
• Dedication / Paolo Costa
• Acknowledgements / Paolo Costa
• Introduction Secularization: A Modern Myth? / Paolo Costa
• Chapter 1 A Strange Dispute at the Deathbed of Religion: Blumenberg and Löwith Cross Swords / Paolo Costa
• Chapter 2 A Work of Demolition and Reconstruction: David Martin Defies the Establishment / Paolo Costa
• Chapter 3 In Search of a New Grand Narrative: Charles Taylor’s Secularity / Paolo Costa
• Chapter 4 Working within a New Paradigm: Hans Joas’s Convergent Trajectory / Paolo Costa
• Chapter 5 Standing on the Edges of the New Paradigm: A Postcolonial Point of View / Paolo Costa
• Chapter 6 A Probe into Deep Time: Marcel Gauchet and the Problematic Exit from Religion / Paolo Costa
• Chapter 7 The Fragile Supremacy of Reason: Jürgen Habermas and the Concept of Post-Secularity / Paolo Costa
• Chapter 8 After the Death of God: Nietzsche’s Long Shadow / Paolo Costa
• Chapter 9 Conclusion: Do We Still Need the Concept of Secularization? / Paolo Costa
• Index / Paolo Costa.

Notes:

• Includes index.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Attribution 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode.de cc

ISBN:

3-657-79526-X

Publisher Number:

10.30965/9783657795260 DOI