One need not have phobia about science, while finding what has come to be called “scientism” intellectually distasteful. This is…
Akeel Bilgrami
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A superstition of modernity
The question “Is this all there is?” is intended, presumably, to explore our hankerings for (or our phobias against) a…
Gandhian fraternity
In expounding his misgiving about the humanism I proposed, Uday Mehta seeks---I think with some strain---to find an incompatibility between…
A different notion of fraternity
In his interesting and engaging essay, Uday Mehta addresses, with some genuine feeling of qualm, a large, concluding theme in…
Genealogy and plurality
Simon During’s essay begins with a taxonomy that is harmlessly at odds with my own classification. He uses the term…
The possibilities of history
Colin Jager projects the virtues of his own reading of me onto my essay when he describes it as possessed…
Secularism: Some concepts and distinctions
I am very grateful to the many commentators on my essay “Secularism: It’s Content and Context” for their instructive and…
Secularism: Its content and context
I begin with three fundamental features of the idea of ‘secularism.’ I will want to make something of them at…
Understanding disenchantment
Jane Bennett’s sympathetic yet critical commentary on my essay "What is Enchantment?" (published in the volume Varieties of Secularism in…
Deus absconditus and disenchantment
Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age is an inspired yet rigorously argued Wagnerian effort to analyze the distinctive anxieties of modern…