{"title":"Tolérance, sécularisation et pensée postmétaphysique. Habermas et les Lumières","authors":"Maiwenn Roudaut","doi":"10.3917/EGER.299.0425","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the Enlightenment legacy of Habermas’ philosophy from the perspective of the question of tolerance. In his latest writings on religion (in particular Zwischen Naturalismus und Religion, 2005, and Nachmetaphysisches Denken II, 2012), Habermas acknowledges the new vitality of religions in Western democracies. He discusses the latest reflections of sociologists of religion on the process of secularization and its link with the modernisation of contemporary societies, which has hitherto been taken for granted. This leads him to question the potentialities of the Enlightenment and its “culture”. In doing so, is the Frankfurt philosopher indulging in a kind of “defeatism of reason” (Jean-Claude Monod)? Or should we rather see Habermas’s doubts as a testimony to his new interest in the pre-political sources of social solidarity?","PeriodicalId":41323,"journal":{"name":"ETUDES GERMANIQUES","volume":"1 1","pages":"425-440"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2021-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ETUDES GERMANIQUES","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3917/EGER.299.0425","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, GERMAN, DUTCH, SCANDINAVIAN","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article examines the Enlightenment legacy of Habermas’ philosophy from the perspective of the question of tolerance. In his latest writings on religion (in particular Zwischen Naturalismus und Religion, 2005, and Nachmetaphysisches Denken II, 2012), Habermas acknowledges the new vitality of religions in Western democracies. He discusses the latest reflections of sociologists of religion on the process of secularization and its link with the modernisation of contemporary societies, which has hitherto been taken for granted. This leads him to question the potentialities of the Enlightenment and its “culture”. In doing so, is the Frankfurt philosopher indulging in a kind of “defeatism of reason” (Jean-Claude Monod)? Or should we rather see Habermas’s doubts as a testimony to his new interest in the pre-political sources of social solidarity?
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La revue Études germaniques a pour but d"informer avec un grand souci d"impartialité et d"objectivité scientifique tous ceux qui s"intéressent à la vie du monde germanique (Allemagne, Suisse, pays scandinaves et néerlandais, études yiddish et judéo-allemandes), aussi bien sur des questions qui touchent à la linguistique, à la littérature, à l"histoire, à la philosophie, à l"art, à la religion — en un mot à la civilisation — qu"à celles qui relèvent de l"actualité et qui sont étudiées dans un esprit de savants et non de partisans.