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Truth and politics : toward a post-secular community / Fred Dallmayr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dallmayr, Fred R. (Fred Reinhard), 1928- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Postsecularism.
- Individualism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (172 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- Endorses the pursuit of paradigm shifts in our understandings of faith, truth, and nature to remedy the "underside" of modernity and thus to inaugurate a post-modern (but not anti-modern) and post-secular (but not anti-secular) view of the world.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Emerging from Multiple Rifts
- 2 Post-Secularity and (Global) Politics: A Need for Redefinition
- Secularity versus Faith
- Religion and Ordinary Language
- Post-Secularity and Politics
- 3 Post-Secular Faith: Toward a Religion of Service
- Varieties of Religious Experience
- Toward a Religion of Service
- Multiple Faiths in a Shared World
- 4 Beyond Secular Modernity: Reflections on Taylor and Panikkar
- A Secular Age
- The Rhythm of Being
- Concluding Comments
- 5 "Man against the State": Self-Interest and Civil Resistance
- Herbert Spencer and Social Darwinism
- Civil Disobedience and Dissent
- Dissent in Community
- 6 Neo-Liberalism and Its Critics: Voices from East and West
- Minimal or Neo-Liberal Democracy
- Beyond Minimalism: Voices from South Asia
- Beyond Minimalism: Voices from East Asia
- Concluding Remarks
- 7 Individualized Life: The Plight of Narcissism
- Individualized Society
- Regimes of Narcissism, Regimes of Despair
- Pandemic, World Alienation, and Vita Activa
- 8 Holism and Particularism: Panikkar on Human Rights
- Is "Human Rights" a Western Concept?
- Rights and Right(ness)
- 9 Falling Upward Communally: A Tribute to Richard Rohr
- The Universal Christ
- The Divine Dance
- Falling Upward
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438489711
- 1438489714
- OCLC:
- 1337072738
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