By Jolyon Agar
This booklet explores the contribution to fresh advancements in post-secularism, philosophical realism and utopianism made via key thinkers within the Hegelian culture. It demanding situations dominant assumptions approximately what the connection among faith and our so-called "secular age" may be that experience sought to minimize or maybe cast off religiosity from the general public sphere. It attracts upon utopian thinkers in the Hegelian culture whose paintings has challenged this slender secularism. specifically it explores the significance of philosophical transcendence to Hegelian and post-Hegelian non secular, social and political theorising. This contains philosophers whose pondering is sympathetic or at the least suitable with transcendence (such as Hegel, Taylor, Bhaskar and Bloch) but additionally those that have a name for rejecting transcendence and in its place embracing immanence or even atheism (Feuerbach, Marx and Engels). by way of drawing at the utopian content material of those thinkers it seeks to shed new mild at the significance non secular principles have performed in more than a few philosophical positions in the widely Hegelian culture from theism, idealism, materialism and atheism to new principles, in particular new study on Hegel's so-called "panentheism".
The ebook should be of curiosity to these operating within the parts of post-secularism and utopian reviews. it may even be of curiosity to lecturers and scholars of the hot flip inside of severe Realism to "meta-reality" and its implications for Hegelianism and Marxism.
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