reading Charles Taylor
Edición de la obra How (Not) to Be Secular
| Autor | James K. A. Smith |
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| Editorial | William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. |
| Fecha de publicación | 2014 |
| Lugar | Grand Rapids, MI |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 160 |
| Formato | Paperback |
| ISBN-13 | 9780802867612 |
| ISBN-10 | 0802867618 |
| OCLC | 871036602 |
| LCCN | 2013049154 |
| Número de Cutter |
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S651h |
This book is a smart, intelligent guide to navigating today's culture. How (Not) to Be Secular is what Jamie Smith calls "your hitchhiker's guide to the present." It is both a reading guide to Charles Taylor's monumental work A Secular Age and philosophical guidance on how we might learn to live in our times. Taylor's landmark book A Secular Age (2007) provides a monumental, incisive analysis of what it means to live in the post-Christian present -- a pluralist world of competing beliefs and growing unbelief. Jamie Smith's book is a compact field guide to Taylor's insightful study of the secular, making that very significant but daunting work accessible to a wide array of readers. Even more, though, Smith's How (Not) to Be Secular is a practical philosophical guidebook, a kind of how-to manual on how to live in our secular age. It ultimately offers us an adventure in self-understanding and maps out a way to get our bearings in today's secular culture, no matter who "we" are -- whether believers or skeptics, devout or doubting, self-assured or puzzled and confused. This is a book for any thinking person to chew on. - Publisher.