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(4.67) | 1 | Marcel Gauchet has launched one of the most ambitious and controversial works of speculative history recently to appear, based on the contention that Christianity is "the religion of the end of religion." In The Disenchantment of the World, Gauchet reinterprets the development of the modern west, with all its political and psychological complexities, in terms of mankind's changing relation to religion. He views Western history as a movement away from religious society, beginning with prophetic Judaism, gaining tremendous momentum in Christianity, and eventually leading to the rise of the political state. Gauchet's view that monotheistic religion itself was a form of social revolution is rich with implications for readers in fields across the humanities and social sciences. Life in religious society, Gauchet reminds us, involves a very different way of being than we know in our secular age: we must imagine prehistoric times where ever-present gods controlled every aspect of daily reality, and where ancestor worship grounded life's meaning in a far-off past. As prophecy-oriented religions shaped the concept of a single omnipotent God, one removed from the world and yet potentially knowable through prayer and reflection, human beings became increasingly free. Gauchet's paradoxical argument is that the development of human political and psychological autonomy must be understood against the backdrop of this double movement in religious consciousness--the growth of divine power and its increasing distance from human activity. In a fitting tribute to this passionate and brilliantly argued book, Charles Taylor offers an equally provocative foreword. Offering interpretations of key concepts proposed by Gauchet, Taylor also explores an important question: Does religion have a place in the future of Western society? The book does not close the door on religion but rather invites us to explore its socially constructive powers, which continue to shape Western politics and conceptions of the state.… (mer) |
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▾Hänvisningar Hänvisningar till detta verk hos externa resurser. Wikipedia på engelska (1)▾Bokbeskrivningar Marcel Gauchet has launched one of the most ambitious and controversial works of speculative history recently to appear, based on the contention that Christianity is "the religion of the end of religion." In The Disenchantment of the World, Gauchet reinterprets the development of the modern west, with all its political and psychological complexities, in terms of mankind's changing relation to religion. He views Western history as a movement away from religious society, beginning with prophetic Judaism, gaining tremendous momentum in Christianity, and eventually leading to the rise of the political state. Gauchet's view that monotheistic religion itself was a form of social revolution is rich with implications for readers in fields across the humanities and social sciences. Life in religious society, Gauchet reminds us, involves a very different way of being than we know in our secular age: we must imagine prehistoric times where ever-present gods controlled every aspect of daily reality, and where ancestor worship grounded life's meaning in a far-off past. As prophecy-oriented religions shaped the concept of a single omnipotent God, one removed from the world and yet potentially knowable through prayer and reflection, human beings became increasingly free. Gauchet's paradoxical argument is that the development of human political and psychological autonomy must be understood against the backdrop of this double movement in religious consciousness--the growth of divine power and its increasing distance from human activity. In a fitting tribute to this passionate and brilliantly argued book, Charles Taylor offers an equally provocative foreword. Offering interpretations of key concepts proposed by Gauchet, Taylor also explores an important question: Does religion have a place in the future of Western society? The book does not close the door on religion but rather invites us to explore its socially constructive powers, which continue to shape Western politics and conceptions of the state. ▾Beskrivningar från bibliotek Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. ▾Beskrivningar från medlemmar på LibraryThing
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If we are overwelmed by the "psycho-dimension" of social transformation,
communicated through "confused minds", who would hasten to declare social
transformations as psychosis, I think it is worth it to refer to some clear minds
like Marcel Gauchet, who may tell us more on the subject of the matter.
Besides this book several essays of Gauchet along the theme of religion and the collective conscious of modernity, are illustrations of clear minds.....
While reading Gauchet's paper -Redefining the Unconscious- for instance, the grain of truth and its clarity may just keep you smiling, depending on your conceiving dimension and experience. Why?....It is because things and concepts which touch the truth are, I think essentialy relaxing and comfortable fitting to our immanent nature and environment..
His point on "The experience of otherness" is an illumination for the mind. see M. Gauchet, Redefining the Unconscious, p. 17 ff.
Gauchet's set of thoughts, could all be seen as embedded in the body of the other recent French intellectuals like Merleau-Ponty, C. Lefort, M. Freitag etc.
If one is acquainted to the latter, Gauchet's challenging "new" approach can be better appreciated.
Useful discussions on religion, state, democracy, law, power and the autonomous individual (the "last drop") etc. are all highly relevant to understand the texture of the Social in a modern community and modernity at all...and Gauchet has a lot more to say on the source of religion , its role and perspective in modernity. I like it very much, though, I presume, it may be difficult to follow, if you have not that primordial "religious" touch, which is deep in everyone's urge for being a Being. "Being There"...(cf. Heideggar's DASEIN)
http://berhane-aymero.blogspot.com/2009/04/religion-tradition-and-modernit.html ( )