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Post-Secularism, Realism and Utopia Transcendence and Immanence from Hegel to Bloch
By Jolyon Agar
Copyright 2014
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores the contribution to recent developments in post-secularism, philosophical realism and utopianism made by key thinkers in the Hegelian tradition. It challenges dominant assumptions about what the relationship between religion and our so-called "secular age" should be that have sought to reduce or even eliminate religiosity from the public sphere. It draws upon utopian... Read more
1. Introduction: Post-secularism, Utopia and Reality 2. Re-enchanting Reality: Depth Realism, Ethical Naturalism & Transcendence 3. Secularism, Post-Secularism, Transcendence & Rationality 4. Transcendent & Immanent Approaches to the “Self”: Marcel Gauchet & Charles Taylor 5. Freedom, Rationality and God: Hegelian Dialectical Historical Panentheism 5. From Transcendence to Immanence: The Anthropological and Materialist Utopia of Ludwig Feuerbach 6. Atheistic Meta-Reality? Historical Materialism and Ernst Bloch’s Philosophy of the “Not Yet” 7. Conclusion: Conclusion: Post-Materialist Meta-Reality
Biography
Jolyon Agar teaches political theory at the Queen's University of Belfast. He is the author of Rethinking Marxism: From Kant and Hegel to Marx and Engels (Routledge 2006).
