As I read Wendy Brown's recent post on A Secular Age, I see that I made a bad job of…
The buffered self and the battle of ideas
A Secular Age
This discussion of Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age is the first discussion on The Immanent Frame. You might want to begin by reading the first essay by Robert Bellah here.
The discussion hosted below expanded to include critical conversation about the edited volume Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age, edited by Michael Warner, Jonathan VanAntwerpen, and Craig Calhoun, in 2010.
For a sub-thread regarding “Sex in a Secular Age” click here.
For background on the founding of The Immanent Frame and the decision to host sustained dialogue on “the secular,” read Jonathan VanAntwerpen’s “Introducing The Immanent Frame” here.
Idealism, materialism, secularism?
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Secularism of a new kind
I have long admired Charles Taylor and have read most of what he has written and always found him helpful.…