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Author | : Julie E. Cooper |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2013-10-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 022608132X |
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Secularism is usually thought to contain the project of self-deification, in which humans attack God’s authority in order to take his place, freed from all constraints. Julie E. Cooper overturns this conception through an incisive analysis of the early modern justifications for secular politics. While she agrees that secularism is a means of empowerment, she argues that we have misunderstood the sources of secular empowerment and the kinds of strength to which it aspires. Contemporary understandings of secularism, Cooper contends, have been shaped by a limited understanding of it as a shift from vulnerability to power. But the works of the foundational thinkers of secularism tell a different story. Analyzing the writings of Hobbes, Spinoza, and Rousseau at the moment of secularity’s inception, she shows that all three understood that acknowledging one’s limitations was a condition of successful self-rule. And while all three invited humans to collectively build and sustain a political world, their invitations did not amount to self-deification. Cooper establishes that secular politics as originally conceived does not require a choice between power and vulnerability. Rather, it challenges us—today as then—to reconcile them both as essential components of our humanity.
Author | : David Scott |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780804752664 |
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This book presents a set of critical engagements by writers from a variety of disciplines with the work of noted anthropologist Talal Asad.
Author | : Sarah Wolff |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2021-06-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0472132539 |
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Reconsidering the European Union's secular identity
Author | : Christian Smith |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2003-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520235614 |
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This collection presents a radical rethinking of the secularization of American public life.
Author | : Simon During |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2004-03-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0674034392 |
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Magic, Simon During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's superlative work, written over the course of a decade, gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts--and by "magic," During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows--affect people? Modern Enchantments takes us deeply into the history and workings of modern secular magic, from the legerdemain of Isaac Fawkes in 1720, to the return of real magic in nineteenth-century spiritualism, to the role of magic in the emergence of the cinema. Through the course of this history, During shows how magic performances have drawn together heterogeneous audiences, contributed to the molding of cultural hierarchies, and extended cultural technologies and media at key moments, sometimes introducing spectators into rationality and helping to disseminate skepticism and publicize scientific innovation. In a more revealing argument still, Modern Enchantments shows that magic entertainments have increased the sway of fictions in our culture and helped define modern society's image of itself.
Author | : Charles Taylor |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 889 |
Release | : 2018-09-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0674986911 |
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The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.
Author | : Arnoud-Jan Bijsterveld |
Publisher | : Brepols Publishers |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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How was medieval Europe held together? People of dissimilar occupations and economic interests, living in widely separate parts of western Europe, came to recognise and act upon a common set of cultural beliefs. This framework of shared social customs and values, that is distinctively medieval and European, arose from the interaction between secular and ecclesiastical power, but these developments can no longer be convincingly viewed as arising solely from events such as the Wars of Investiture and the Fourth Lateran Council. The historiography of this study shows that the medieval mental framework was not solely concerned with the great struggles between Rome and lay rulers, but neither can we assume that local communities were islands of cohesion in a wider world of chaos and conflict. The case studies presented demonstrate how texts were used as weapons by ecclesiastical authorities in defining their relationships with lay powers. Other studies here focus upon how land and kinship was used to define the social relations between the laity and the clergy.The concluding section concentrates upon the solution of conflicts.
Author | : Michael Warner |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2010-03-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780674048577 |
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“What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age?” This apparently simple question opens into the massive, provocative, and complex A Secular Age, where Charles Taylor positions secularism as a defining feature of the modern world, not the mere absence of religion, and casts light on the experience of transcendence that scientistic explanations of the world tend to neglect. In Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age, a prominent and varied group of scholars chart the conversations in which A Secular Age intervenes and address wider questions of secularism and secularity. The distinguished contributors include Robert Bellah, José Casanova, Nilüfer Göle, William E. Connolly, Wendy Brown, Simon During, Colin Jager, Jon Butler, Jonathan Sheehan, Akeel Bilgrami, John Milbank, and Saba Mahmood. Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age succeeds in conveying to readers the complexity of secularism while serving as an invaluable guide to a landmark book.
Author | : Christian Smith |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520230002 |
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This collection presents a radical rethinking of the secularization of American public life.
Author | : Kosana Jovanović |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Europe |
ISBN | : 9789462981669 |
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This book brings together a team of scholars representing a broad range of interests and new approaches in medieval studies to explore the interactions of secular power and sacral authority in central and southeastern Europe in the period. Contributors present new research on the region's political and legal history, nobility and government institutions, war and diplomacy, literature and literacy, sacred and secular art, archaeological research, heritage studies, and much more.