Are international relations theorists about to awake from their long secular slumber and discover that the world has had, has,…
Remaking the world
secularity
Taking religion seriously
What distinguishes Habermas from Rawls on religion in the public sphere is not Habermas’s slightly amended view of public reason,…
Deciphered by means of a perfected computer
Seen with a genealogical eye, Youth Without Youth speaks to the sheer danger of the sacred as the robust object…
Framing the middle
From the opening pages, my historical antennae quickly began to quiver. Taylor’s book works in a space far removed from…
The last prophet of Leviathan
Lilla turns aside to the small cadre of the Enlightened who see the story for what it is....“We” turns out…
The other shore
For Lilla, Westerners are the exception because we live on what he calls “the other shore.” Civilizations on the “opposite…
Closure at critique?
Is critique secular? This is the question posed by Chris Nealon on this blog, and by the panel at Berkeley…
Is critique secular?
A consequence of hinging our conversation on belief is that it tends to project “belief” in the abstract onto some…
That weird strange thing
That Charles Taylor’s massive book on the malaises and predicaments of secularity could be taken by so many distinguished intellectuals…
Human rights in a secular age?
The theme of loss is...a deep undercurrent in Taylor’s account. One question that those of us working in the area…