How Not to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor - Softcover

Smith, James K. A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802867618 ISBN 13: 9780802867612

Verlag: William B Eerdmans Publishing Co, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

How (Not) to Be Secular is what Jamie Smith calls "your hitchhiker's guide to the present" -- it is both a reading guide to Charles Taylor's monumental work A Secular Age and philosophical guidance on how we might learn to live in our times.

Taylor's landmark book A Secular Age (2007) provides a monumental, incisive analysis of what it means to live in the post-Christian present -- a pluralist world of competing beliefs and growing unbelief. Jamie Smith's book is a compact field guide to Taylor's insightful study of the secular, making that very significant but daunting work accessible to a wide array of readers.

Even more, though, Smith's How (Not) to Be Secular is a practical philosophical guidebook, a kind of how-to manual on how to live in our secular age. It ultimately offers us an adventure in self-understanding and maps out a way to get our bearings in today's secular culture, no matter who "we" are -- whether believers or skeptics, devout or doubting, self-assured or puzzled and confused. This is a book for any thinking person to chew on.

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James K. A. Smith is professor of philosophy at Calvin University, where he also holds the Byker Chair in Applied Reformed Theology and Worldview. His previous books include How (Not) to Be Secular and You Are What You Love.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: William B Eerdmans Publishing Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0802867618
• ISBN 13: 9780802867612
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 148
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