A dialogue with Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, and Cornel West
On October 22, 2009, over 1000 people gathered in the vast and venerable Great Hall at New York City’s Cooper Union to listen to four of our time’s preeminent public intellectuals discuss the place of religion in contemporary politics and public life.
We have gathered links to recordings, transcripts and other materials related to this event, as well as relevant posts from the archives of The Immanent Frame. We encourage you to browse, read, listen and, of course, contribute your own reflections to our ongoing discussion of “the power of religion in the public sphere.”
- Listen: complete audio recordings of all four presentations
- Read and listen: the conversation between Habermas and Taylor, moderated by Craig Calhoun
- Read and listen: the conversation between Butler and West, moderated by Eduardo Mendieta
- Participate: an open thread on “the power of religion in the public sphere”
From the archives:
- The philosopher-citizen: a post by Charles Taylor on Jürgen Habermas
- Religion in the public sphere: a discussion featuring contributions from Robert Bellah, Craig Calhoun, Simone Chambers, Mark S. Cladis, Christopher Eberle, Hans Joas, and Cristina Lafont
- Secularism and critique: a post by Charles Taylor
- Do good philosophers make good citizens?: a post by Simone Chambers
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Related posts from here & there:
- Cornel West on himself
- Butler on state violence
- Cornel West: “What to Die for”
- Prophecy and public reason
- Habermas: Between Naturalism and Religion
- Notes on a post-secular society
“Rethinking secularism: The power of religion in the public sphere” was sponsored by the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University in concert with the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University and the Social Science Research Council.