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- Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Sprache: Englisch
This important new volume brings together Habermas' key writing on religion and religious belief. Habermas explores the relations between Christian and Jewish thought, on the one hand, and the Western philosophical tradition on the other. In so doing, he examines a range of important figures, including Benjamin, Heidegger, Johann Baptist Metz and Gershom Scholem. In a new introduction written especially for this volume, Eduardo Mendieta places Habermas' engagement with religion in the context of his work as a whole. Mendieta also discusses Habermas' writings in relation to Jewish Messianism and the Frankfurt School, showing how the essays in Religion and Rationality, one of which is translated into English for the first time, foreground an important, yet often neglected, dimension of critical theory. The volume concludes with an original extended interview, also in English for the first time, in which Habermas develops his current views on religion in modern society. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theology, religious studies and philosophy, as well as to all those already familiar with Habermas' work.
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Table of Contents
Title page
Copyright page
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Religion as Critique
The Linguistification of the Sacred as a Catalyst of Modernity
Athens or Jerusalem
Acknowledgments
Notes
1: The German Idealism of the Jewish Philosophers
2: On the Difficulty of Saying No
Note
3: Transcendence from Within, Transcendence in this World
Common Premises
The Truth Claim of Theological Discourse
Theological Objections
Response to the Nontheologians
Notes
4: To Seek to Salvage an Unconditional Meaning Without God is a Futile Undertaking: Reflections on a Remark of Max Horkheimer
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5: Communicative Freedom and Negative Theology: Questions for Michael Theunissen
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6: Israel or Athens: Where does Anamnestic Reason Belong? Johannes Baptist Metz on Unity amidst Multicultural Plurality
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7: Tracing the Other of History in History: Gershom Scholem's
Sabbatai Ṣevi
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8: A Conversation About God and the World: Interview with Eduardo Mendieta
Notes
Index
Guide
Cover
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Copyright © this collection Polity Press 2002. Please see the acknowledgements for further copyright information.
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Acknowledgments
This collection of Habermas' essays on religion has not previously appeared in one volume. The Introduction and chapter 8 (translated by Max Pensky) have been written especially for this volume. Full bibliographical details of the other chapters are given below. Each chapter in this volume has been presented as it was originally published. The decision to do this has necessarily entailed some inconsistencies of style and spelling between the chapters.
Chapter 1, “The German Idealism of the Jewish Philosophers,” first appeared as “Der deutsche Idealismus der jüdischen Philosophen,” in Philosophisch-politische Profile Erweiterte Ausgabe, pp. 39–64, © Suhrkamp Verlag, 1981. It was translated by Frederick G. Lawrence and published in English as Philosophical-Political Profiles (MIT, 1983 and Polity, 1986), pp. 21–43, © MIT, 1983.
Chapter 2, “On the Difficulty of Saying No,” first appeared as “Von der Schwierigkeit, Nein zu sagen,” in Philosophisch-politische Profile. Erweiterte Ausgabe, pp. 445–52, © Suhrkamp Verlag, 1981. This is a new translation by Max Pensky (© Polity, 2002).
Chapter 3, “Transcendence from Within, Transcendence in this World,” first appeared as “Transzendenz von innen, Transzendenz ins Diesseits,” in Texte und Kontexte, pp. 127–56, © Suhrkamp Verlag, 1991. It was translated by Eric Crump and Peter P. Kenny and was published in Don S. Browning and Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, eds., Habermas, Modernity, and Public Theology, Crossroad, 1992, pp. 226–50, © Don S. Browning and Francis Schüssler Fiorenza.
Chapter 4, “To Seek to Salvage an Unconditional Meaning Without God is a Futile Undertaking,” first appeared as “Zu Max Horkheimers Satz: Einen unbedingten Sinn zu retten ohne Gott ist eitel,” in Texte und Kontexte, pp. 110–26, © Suhrkamp Verlag 1991. It was translated by Ciaran P. Cronin and published in Justification and Application. Remarks on Discourse Ethics (MIT and Polity, 1993), pp. 133–46, © MIT Press, 1993.
Chapters 5 and 6, “Communicative Freedom and Negative Theology” and “Israel or Athens: Where does Anamnestic Reason belong?” appeared as “Kommunikative Freiheit und Negative Theologie” and “Israel oder Athen: Wem gehört die anamnetische Vernunft?” in Vom sinnlichen Eindruck zum symbolischen Ausdruck Philosophische Essays, pp. 112–35 and 98–111 respectively, © Suhrkamp Verlag, 1997. They were translated by Peter Dews and published in The Liberating Power of Symbols. Philosophical Essays, pp. 90–111 and 78–89 respectively, © Polity.
Chapter 7, “Tracing the Other of History in History. Gershom Scholem's Sabbati Ṣevi,” first appeared as “In der Geschichte das Andere der Geschichte aufspüren. Zu Gershom Scholems Sabbatai Zwi,” in Vom sinnlichen Eindruck zum symbolischen Ausdruck Philosophische Essays, pp. 73–83, © Suhrkamp Verlag, 1997. It was translated by Peter Dews and published in The Liberating Power of Symbols. Philosophical Essays (MIT and Polity, 2001), pp. 57–65, © Polity, 2001.
Every effort has been made to trace the copyright holders, but if any has been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.
Introduction
The question of religion is once again at the forefront of critical thought precisely because it crystallizes some of the most serious and pressing questions of contemporary social thought: the relationship between social structure and rationality; between reason as a universal standard and the inescapable fact that reason is embodied only historically and in contingent social practices; that reason as universality was, if not discovered, at least enunciated as a teleological standard by religions;1 that in an age of secularization and scienticization, religion remains a major factor in the moral education and motivation of individuals uprooted from other traditions; and at the very least, in an age of accelerating homogenization and simultaneous manufacturing of difference, what sociologists of globalization have called glocalization, religions are articulated as the last refuge of unadulterated difference, the last reservoir of cultural autonomy.
Jürgen Habermas' work over the last four decades intersects sometimes directly and explicitly, sometimes tangentially and suggestively, with many of these questions. The impetus is to make explicit what to many is implicit and unthematized. The goal, thus, is to foreground those resources in Habermas' immense intellectual contribution that may aid a critical confrontation with the new intellectual and social challenges that are entailed by new forms of obscurantism, fundamentalism, anarchical mysticism, religious irrationalism, and the like. Most importantly, this collection should make evident how those resources in Habermas' work were forged from the very sources and traditions that have shaped the identity and structure of Western societies. Habermas' “methodological atheism” is not a rejection but a response to and a dialectical sublation of the Jewish-Christian tradition that suffuses so pervasively the work of all of his precursors.
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