Confession and judgment are two sides of the same action in the drama of ideas; sometimes the confessor and the…
’Swounds: Shakespeare and the spirit of trust
G.W.F. Hegel
Secularization histories as cultural-political programs
In a The Immanent Frame post on buffered selves, Charles Taylor commented that “The process of disenchantment, involving a change…
Beyond reductive naturalism
Future histories may report that the public discourse on religion was dominated by reductive naturalism until Robert Bellah’s Religion in…
Landmarks in the critical study of secularism
In September of 2010, Talal Asad, William E. Connolly, Charles Hirschkind, and I met at the annual American Political Science…
Commentaries on our age
Each contributor [to Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age] delivers a reading of Taylor’s work, helping to evaluate its…
Hegel in the heartland
In The New York Times, J.M. Bernstein holds forth on the metaphysical dimensions of the sustained paroxysm known as the…