Postmetaphysics
A Socio-Philosophical Challenge to the Indian Religious Public Sphere
Anil Babu Suthi
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Anil Babu Suthi, Postmetaphysics (2022), WBG, Darmstadt, ISBN: 9783534407033
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Beschreibung
Habermas’ concept of postmetaphysics does orient us to engage in a dialogue between faith and knowledge that paves way to engage in a discourse concerning religion in public sphere. This thesis reconstructs socio-philosophical religious traditions, whose aim is to provide a discursive methodology in treating non-reflective expressions of religion.
Beschreibung / Abstract
Habermas’ development of the concept of postmetaphysics does orient us to engage in a dialogue between faith and knowledge that contributes in dealing with religion in public sphere. This research is based on an enquiry that conscientizes one about the primordial intentionality of religion within sociological and philosophical categories that are expressed in a public sphere, especialliy in India. It aims at providing a discursive methodology in treating non-reflective expressions of religion such as religious extremism or violence based on fundamentalism, by exposing and accentuating the recapitulation of contemporary society towards the fundamental rational, reformative and emancipatory traditions of religion, which are gradually being lost or ignored. This is treated in a pluriformity of theories which propose the theory of translation to the Indian relgious society, wherein the possibility to present religious concepts in a secular language has been deciphered and established.
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Born in 1980 in Visakhapatnam, South India, Suthi began his academic career as a basis to his formation to be a Catholic priest belonging to the Order of Capuchin Friars Minor. After completing Bachelor's degree in Philosophy (2002-2005) and Theology (2006-2009), he was encouraged to enter a PhD program in Germany at the University of Münster (2015-2020), which he successfully completed at the University of Frankfurt (2021).
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Cover
- Impressum
- Table of Contents
- I ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- II ABSTRACT
- II ABSTRAKT
- III GENERAL INTRODUCTION
- PART I: PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS
- 1 Research Question/Problem Statement
- 2 Thesis Prospect: Reasoning Religion
- 3 Methodology
- PART II: CONTEXTUALIZING HABERMAS IN INDIAN RELIGIOUS SETTING
- 1 The Setting of Religion in India
- 2 Public Sphere as the Stadium of Habermasian Philosophy of Religion
- 3 Habermasian Parameters in Indian Context
- PART III: HABERMAS’ RELIGION I – TRACES OF RATIONALITY IN RELIGION
- 1 Rationalization of Society in Durkheiman Categories
- 2 The Axial Age
- PART IV: HABERMAS’ RELIGION II – POSTMETAPHYSICAL PHILOSOPHY AS BRIDGING THE SECULAR AND RELIGION
- 1 Faith (Glauben) and Knowledge (Wissen) as Points of Orientation
- 2 Postsecular
- 3 Postmetaphysical as Saving Religion
- PART V: SECULARISM AS POSTMETAPHYSICAL MODUS OPERANDI
- 1 How does Secular Reason Function for Religion?
- 2 Varieties of Modern Religion
- 3 Intrinsic Role of Religion
- 4 Reasoning Religion with a Secular Attitude
- PART VI: Postmetaphysical Approach to Public Religion in India
- 1 Significance of the Habermasian Approach to the Problem of Religion
- 2 The Functionality of Epistemic Religion
- 3 Reasoning Religion in Public: The Habermasian Challenge to Indian Religions
- IV Conclusion – Towards a Critique of Religion
- V BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VI GLOSSARY
- Backcover