Post-Secularism, Realism and Utopia: Transcendence and Immanence from Hegel to Bloch

ISBN-13: 9780415691802 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 248 str.

Jolyon Agar

Opis

This project addresses the rise in post-secularism in the humanities and social sciences. Post-secularism is the proposition that the secular project begun by the Enlightenment has come to an end. Here, the debate about the nature of our 'secular age' and the role of religion in society is renewed. This book will be of great interest to those scholars currently working in the area of post-secularism (a very popular area of research in political philosophy); Hegelian and Marxist scholars; the Critical Realist community. It will also be of interest to undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in Utopian Marxism, Critical Theory, Critical Realism, post-Hegelian German philosophy, philosophy of religion and the interface between political philosophy and religion.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Post-secularism, Utopia and Reality 2. Re-enchanting Reality: Depth Realism, Ethical Naturalism & Transcendence 3. Secularism, Post-Secularism, Transcendence & Rationality 4. Transcendent & Immanent Approaches to the “Self”: Marcel Gauchet & Charles Taylor 5. Freedom, Rationality and God: Hegelian Dialectical Historical Panentheism 5. From Transcendence to Immanence: The Anthropological and Materialist Utopia of Ludwig Feuerbach 6. Atheistic Meta-Reality? Historical Materialism and Ernst Bloch’s Philosophy of the “Not Yet” 7. Conclusion: Conclusion: Post-Materialist Meta-Reality

O autorze

Jolyon Agar teaches political theory at the Queen's University of Belfast. He is the author of Rethinking Marxism: From Kant and Hegel to Marx and Engels (Routledge 2006).