Author	Habermas, Jürgen
Title	Between naturalism and religion : philosophical essays / by Jurgen Habermas ; translated by Ciaran Cronin
Imprint	Malden, M.A. : Polity, 2008
Descript	vi, 361 p. ; 23 cm

"The tension between naturalism and religion is the central theme of this book by Jurgen Habermas. On the one hand, he defends a naturalist understanding of cultural evolution that seeks to do justice to the normative character of the human mind. At the same time, he calls for an appropriate interpretation of the secularizing effects of a process of social and cultural rationalization increasingly denounced by the champions of religious orthodoxies as a historical development peculiar to the West." --Book Jacket

Public space and political public sphere : the biographical roots of two motifs in my thought -- Communicative action and the detranscendentalized "use of reason" -- On the architectonics of discursive differentiation : a brief response to a major controversy -- Prepolitical foundations of the constitutional state? -- Religion in the public sphere : cognitive presuppositions for the "public use of reason" by religious and secular citizens -- Freedom and determinism -- "I myself am part of nature" : Adorno on the intrication of reason in nature : reflections on the relation between freedom and unavailability -- The boundary between faith and knowledge : on the reception and contemporary importance of Kant's philosophy of religion -- Religious tolerance as pacemaker for cultural rights -- Equal treatment of cultures and the limits of postmodern liberalism -- A political constitution for the pluralist world society?

1. Naturalism
2. Naturalism -- Religious aspects
3. Science -- Philosophy
4. Religion and science

LOCATION	CALL#	STATUS
Arts Library	B3258.H323 H114B 2008	CHECK SHELVES