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Book SynopsisThere is no alternative to postmetaphysical thinking : this statement, made by Jurgen Habermas in 1988, has lost none of its relevance.
Trade Review"This new volume is a remarkable example of a lifework that is still very much a work in progress. It covers a rich variety of topics, honing in particularly on the meaning of religion in public life."
—Die ZeitTable of ContentsContents
Linguistification of the Sacred. In Place of a Preface
I The Lifeworld as a Space of Reasons
1. From Worldviews to the Lifeworld
2. The Lifeworld as a Space of Symbolically Embodied Reasons
3. A Hypothesis concerning the Evolutionary Meaning of Rites
II Postmetaphysical Thinking
4. The New Philosophical Interest in Religion. An Conversation with Eduardo Mendieta
5. Religion and Postmetaphysical Thinking: A Reply
6. A Symposium on Faith and Knowledge: Reply to Objections, Response to Suggestions
III Politics and Religion
7. �The Political�: The Rational Meaning of a Questionable Inheritance of Political Theology
8. The �Good Life� Ð a �Detestable Phrase�: The Significance of the Young Rawls�s Religious Ethics for His Political Theory
9. Rawls�s Political Liberalism: Reply to the Resumption of a Discussion
10. Religion in the Public Sphere of �Post-Secular� Society
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