No. I want your serious consideration. If you think this is a joke, or you think the post-secular turn is some kind of fringe, oddball thing, you are not aware. The quote was taken from a serious article in a respected journal. Why are you laughing?
Phil
> On Jul 10, 2020, at 9:59 AM, Dan Bloom <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> On Jul 10, 2020, at 11:46 AM, Philip Brownell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> We live now in a post-secular age. What does that mean for gestalt therapy?
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>> In thinking about the current situation in which people are calling for a revolution, here is an exerpt from an interesting article:
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>> "But post-secularism proves to be useful also for the third party which simultaneously opposes both, enlightenment
>> and tradition: the party of revolution. This variant of the post-secular debate, which revolves mostly
>> around the “revolutionary figure” of Saint Paul (Agamben, Badiou, Žižek), constitutes a radically leftist answer to
>> the crisis of Marxism with its allegedly scientific insight into the objective laws of history. With the decline of the
>> Marxist grand narrative of the “end of history” realized in global communism, these thinkers turn to Saint Paul
>> who founded new religion through a radical break with all traditional systems of faith and social organization.
>> Here, the religious original act of the “foundation of the new” is meant as an inspiration against the late-modern
>> tendency to see the social world as devoid of political alternatives, in other words as the semi-naturalized biopolitical
>> process of “bare life,” dominated solely by the issues of social wellbeing. Thus, while the enlightenmental
>> post-secularism invokes revelation against naturalism, and the traditionalist post-secularism calls upon religious
>> orthodoxy against nihilism, the revolutionary section refers to religion against indifferentism, that is, a social
>> state of mind in which a foundational Event and political decision is no longer possible.” (Bielick-Robson, 2019, p.58-59)
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>> Bielik-Robson, A. (2019) The post-secular turn: Enlightenment, tradition, revolution. Eidos A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 3(9), pp. 57-82.
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