Jürgen Habermas احد اشهر علماء الاجتماع العلمانيين يتراجع عن نظريه فصل الدين عن الدوله (تذكير)

08:57 AM March, 23 2016

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Hisham Amin-
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n a recent essay, Jürgen Habermas proposes a more inclusive
approach to the role of religion in the public sphere than he was
previously willing to permit.1
Pointing to such phenomena as
the fall of the Soviet Union and the attacks of September 11, 2001,
he asserts that religion has gained a “hitherto unexpected political
1Jürgen Habermas, “Religion in the Public Sphere,” European Journal of
Philosophy 14 (2006), 1.
Illumine: Journal of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society
Graduate Students Association, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2009
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importance,” thus warranting a renewed consideration.2
Maeve
Cooke observes this nuance in Habermas’s thinking, noting that since
2001 the tone of his writing on the importance of religion has been
less cautious than in the past, calling for the inclusion of religious
language in public debate.3
Habermas’s renewed consideration is not
without precedent, however, and can be detected in embryo in some
of his earlier writings. In his 1992 essay “Th emes in Post####physical
Th inking,” for example, Habermas admits a certain indispensable
relationship between religion and philosophy, where the former
continues to inspire the latter through the force of its semantic
content, thus maintaining what he calls a “curious dependence”
between the two.4
It is not until his 2006 essay “Religion in the Public
Sphere,” however, that he makes the transition from recognizing the
existence and value of this dependence to granting religious actors
reciprocal rights in the realm of public discourse