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Contesting Modernity in the German Secularization Debate
Sjoerd Griffioen investigates the polemics between Löwith, Blumenberg and Schmitt in the German secularization debate (1950’s-1980’s). ‘Secularization’ is revealed as a contested concept in ideological struggles over modernity and religion, both in this debate and contemporary postsecularism.
Skepticism in Early Modern English Literature
Early modern skepticism contributed to literary invention, aesthetic pleasure, and the uneven process of secularization in England.
Some New World
In his famous argument against miracles, David Hume gets to the heart of the modern problem of supernatural belief. 'We are apt', says Hume, 'to imagine ourselves transported into some new world; where the whole form of nature is disjointed, and every element performs its operation in a different manner, from what it does at present.' This encapsulates, observes Peter Harrison, the disjuncture between contemporary Western culture and medieval societies. In the Middle Ages, people saw the hand of God at work everywhere. Indeed, many suppose that 'belief in the supernatural' is likewise fundamental nowadays to religious commitment. But dichotomising between 'naturalism' and 'supernaturalism' is actually a relatively recent phenomenon, just as the notion of 'belief' emerged historically late. In this masterful contribution to intellectual history, the author overturns crucial misconceptions – 'myths' – about secular modernity, challenging common misunderstandings of the past even as he reinvigorates religious thinking in the present.
What Film Is Good For
For well over a century, going to the movies has been a favorite pastime for billions across the globe. But is film actually good for anything? This volume brings together thirty-six scholars, critics, and filmmakers in search of an answer. Their responses range from the most personal to the most theoretical--and, together, recast current debates about film ethics. Movie watching here emerges as a wellspring of value, able to sustain countless visions of "the good life." Films, these authors affirm, make us reflect, connect, adapt; they evoke wonder and beauty; they challenge and transform. In a word, its varieties of value make film invaluable.
Red Secularism
Red Secularism is the first substantive investigation into one of the key sources of radicalism in modern German, the subculture that arose at the intersection of secularism and socialism in the late nineteenth-century. It explores the organizations that promoted their humanistic-monistic worldview through popular science and asks how this worldview shaped the biographies of ambitious self-educated workers and early feminists. Todd H. Weir shows how generations of secularist intellectuals staked out leading positions in the Social Democratic Party, but often lost them due to their penchant for dissent. Moving between local and national developments, this book examines the crucial role of red secularism in the political struggles over religion that rocked Germany and fed into the National Socialist dictatorship of 1933. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Transformational Ethics of Film
Charting new routes for film ethics, Transformational Ethics of Film develops a critical account of the ethics of personal transformation at work within the ‘film as philosophy’ debate.
Kracht ten goede
Een filosofische reis door de tijd. Kracht ten goede van Sander Griffioen is een intrigerend filosofisch werk dat je meeneemt in een reis door de tijd. Griffioen schrijft dat we niet bang hoeven te zijn voor de tijd. Hij laat zien dat tijd een kracht ten goede is. De auteur biedt een waaier aan vragen en gedachten: kunnen we ontkomen aan de tirannie van de klok? Welke rol speelt God in de tijd en hoe verhouden kwaad en goed zich tot de tijd? Griffioen heeft aandacht voor het kleine, zoals bloeiende appelbomen en zingende kinderen, maar ook voor de betekenis van tijd in het licht van het onmetelijke universum. De tekst is subtiel en gelaagd. Goede filosofie gaat immers langzaam!
Deleuze and Desire
A close reading of Deleuze’s major text on desire The engagement of Deleuze with psychoanalysis has led to the development of a remarkable and highly influential theory about human desire. The most systematic account of this theory, crucial for anyone interested in the work of Deleuze and Guattari, can be found in the discussion of the dynamic genesis of sense, a pivotal part of Deleuze’s The Logic of Sense. In Deleuze and Desire Piotrek Świątkowski picks up the challenge to provide an ad literam commentary of this text. Świątkowski makes use of a broad range of examples, from psychoanalytic case studies to art, literature, and film, and analyses in an accessible and clear way the impact of the work of psychoanalysts such as Melanie Klein on Deleuze.
Narratives of Disenchantment and Secularization
What does it really mean to be modern? The contributors to this collection offer critical attempts both to re-read Max Weber's historical idea of disenchantment and to develop further his understanding of what the contested relationship between modernity and religion represents. The approach is distinctive because it focuses on disenchantment as key to understanding those aspects of modern society and culture that Weber diagnosed. This is in opposition to approaches that focus on secularization, narrowly construed as the rise of secularism or the divide between religion and politics, and that then conflate this with modernization as a whole. Other novel contributions are discussions of tempo...
Wissenschaftstheorie und Theologie
Wie die Theologie als Wissenschaft von Gott sich in der Gliederung ihrer Disziplinen im Spannungsfeld von Einheit und Vielfalt der Wissenschaften zu verorten hat, thematisierte Pannenberg in einer groß angelegten Monografie, die 1973 erschienen ist. 50 Jahre danach werden Beiträge zu "Wissenschaftstheorie und Theologie" vorgelegt, die anlässlich des 9. Pannenberg-Kolloquiums in der Münchner Hochschule für Philosophie gehalten wurden. Es referierten Winfried Löffler, Jürgen Werbick, Christoph Poetsch, Paul Schroffner, Dirk Ansorge, Harald Matern, Felix Körner, Georg Sans, Friederike Nüssel, Josef Schmidt, Thomas Oehl und Gunther Wenz.
