Truth and Politics: Toward a Post-Secular Community

Author:   Fred Dallmayr
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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9781438489698


Pages:   170
Publication Date:   01 August 2022
Format:   Hardback
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"Oppositions found in nearly every element of society readily give way to antagonism and hostility and, ultimately, to war and destruction. Both historically and analytically, this condition can be traced to an outlook called ""the modern paradigm,"" launched by Descartes' ""cogito ergo sum."" The paradigm shift explored in this study is proposed on three levels: faith, society, and ecology. On the faith (human-divine relations) level, Fred Dallmayr suggests a shift where faith and world are seen in symbiosis rather than set against each other in the dualism that modernity has caused. On the societal (inter-human relations) level, he suggests a shift that would repair modernity's trend of sundering individuals from any communal background, which has caused people to increasingly act (solely) in their own interests. On the ecology (man-nature relations) level, Dallmayr explores how nature has responded to human exploitation and constant intervention, underscoring the need for a paradigm shift here as well. Truth and Politics seeks to remedy the ""underside"" of modernity and thus to inaugurate a ""postmodern"" (not anti-modern"") and ""post-secular"" (not anti-secular) perspective."

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Author:   Fred Dallmayr
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438489698


ISBN 10:   1438489692
Pages:   170
Publication Date:   01 August 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Emerging from Multiple Rifts 2. Post-Secularity and (Global) Politics: A Need for Redefinition 3. Post-Secular Faith: Toward a Religion of Service 4. Beyond Secular Modernity: Reflections on Taylor and Panikkar 5. ""Man against the State"": Self-Interest and Civil Resistance 6. Neo-Liberalism and Its Critics: Voices from East and West 7. Individualized Life: The Plight of Narcissism 8. Holism and Particularism: Panikkar on Human Rights 9. Falling Upward Communally: A Tribute to Richard Rohr Concluding Remarks Notes Index"

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Dallmayr's admirers, along with others who are involved in the philosophical and political scientific world of contemporary social and political theory, will be happy to have this volume available. - William Leon McBride, Purdue University


Author Information

Fred Dallmayr is Packey J. Dee Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. His many books include The Promise of Democracy: Political Agency and Transformation, also published by SUNY Press.

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