Secular Powers :: Humility in Modern Political Thought.

Secularism is usually thought to contain the project of self-deification, in which humans attack God's authority in order to take his place, freed from all constraints. Julie E. Cooper overturns this conception through an incisive analysis of the early modern justifications for secular politics...

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1. Verfasser: Cooper, Julie E.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: University of Chicago Press, 2013.
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Zusammenfassung:Secularism is usually thought to contain the project of self-deification, in which humans attack God's authority in order to take his place, freed from all constraints. Julie E. Cooper overturns this conception through an incisive analysis of the early modern justifications for secular politics. While she agrees that secularism is a means of empowerment, she argues that we have misunderstood the sources of secular empowerment and the kinds of strength to which it aspires. Contemporary understandings of secularism, Cooper contends, have been shaped by a limited understanding.
Beschreibung:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1299916228
9781299916227
9780226081328
022608132X