A Genealogy of Faith and Freedom

The review highlights how Habermas reconstructs the historically constitutive function of religious thought regarding essential categories through which to appropriate our practical freedom. It articulates the three essential bifurcations taken along the way: to opt for Judeo-Christian dialogism ver...

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Published inTheory, culture & society Vol. 37; no. 7-8; pp. 37 - 46
Main Author Kögler, Hans-Herbert
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.12.2020
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Debt
Discovery
Exegesis & hermeneutics
Freedoms
Genealogy
Habermas, Jurgen
Intercultural communication
Metaphysics
Modernity
Naturalism
Norms
Religion
Religious beliefs
Renewal
postmetaphysical thinking
Habermas
Genealogy
intercultural dialogue
axial age
religion
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Summary:The review highlights how Habermas reconstructs the historically constitutive function of religious thought regarding essential categories through which to appropriate our practical freedom. It articulates the three essential bifurcations taken along the way: to opt for Judeo-Christian dialogism versus other axial age world religions; for a Lutheran Kantianism of an unconditional normativity versus an empiricist naturalism; and for the hermeneutic discovery of a validity-oriented communicative agency versus a Hegelian metaphysics. Recognizing our normative indebtedness to religious roots in modernity is to enable the renewal of an unabashed commitment to 'rational freedom,' thus serving as a bulwark against currently fashionable scientistic worldviews. Such a hermeneutic genealogy may also provide one promising resource to reconstruct shared normative ideals in a cross-cultural dialogue.
ISSN:0263-2764
1460-3616
DOI:10.1177/0263276420957735