Overview

This important new volume brings together Habermas' key writing on religion and religious belief. Habermas explores the relations between Christian and Jewish thought, on the one hand, and the Western philosophical tradition on the other. In so doing, he examines a range of important figures, including Benjamin, Heidegger, Johann Baptist Metz and Gershom Scholem. In a new introduction written especially for this volume, Eduardo Mendieta places Habermas' engagement with religion in the context of his work as a whole. Mendieta also discusses Habermas' writings in relation to Jewish Messianism and the Frankfurt School, showing how the essays in Religion and Rationality, one of which is translated into English for the first time, foreground an important, yet often neglected, dimension of critical theory. The volume concludes with an original extended interview, also in English for the first time, in which Habermas develops his current views on religion in modern society. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theology, religious studies and philosophy, as well as to all those already familiar with Habermas' work.

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Author:   Eduardo Mendieta (State University of New York, Stony Brook) ,  Jürgen Habermas (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Polity Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   0.397kg
ISBN:  

9780745624860

ISBN 10:   0745624863
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   17 June 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments. Introduction. Chapter 1: The German Idealism of the Jewish Philosophers. Chapter 2: On the Difficulty of Saying No. Chapter 3: Transcendence from Within, Transcendence in this World. Chapter 4: To Seek to Salvage an Unconditional Meaning Without God is a Futile Undertaking: Reflections on a Remark of Max Horkheimer. Chapter 5: Communicative Freedom and Negative Theology: Questions for Michael Theunissen. Chapter 6 Israel or Athens: Where does Anamnestic Reason Belong? Johannes Baptist Metz on Unity amidst Multicultural Plurality. Chapter 7: Tracing the Other of History in History: Gershom Scholem's Sabbati Sevi. Chapter 8: A Conversation About God and the World: Interview with Eduardo Mendieta. Index

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Jürgen Habermas is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Frankfurt.

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