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Religion and Rationality: Essays on Reason, God and Modernity (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) |
Author: Jürgen Habermas
Published: 2002-09-09 |
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 Habermas is interesting, but selection of essays is questionable
This collection of Habermas's essays dealing with religion is a very mixed bag. A number of them are so specific in topic (and so historically-minded) that it's hard to draw any real inferences about Habermas's own opinions. The introductory essay by Eduardo Mendieta is nearly worthless for those who don't already know Habermas's other work quite well, so it fails to open up the volume to theologians and clergy who want to engage with his thought.
Nevertheless, some of the essays are very illuminating, including "Transcendence from Within, Transcendence in this World," "Israel or Athens: Where does Anamnestic Reason Belong?" "Tracing the Other of History in History," and the final interview. Given some of Habermas's commitments to reason and methodological atheism, I expected him to travel down roads similar to the ones Dewey explores in Common Faith, which folks like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris are exploring in the present day, but I never found him actually rejecting the way religious people now enter the public sphere. It definitely gives cause for hope and entices the reader to explore Habermas's philosophical work.
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