Beyond Church and State: Democracy, Secularism, and Conversion

ISBN: 9781107579439 出版年：2013 页码：252 Matthew Scherer Cambridge University Press

Acknowledgments Introduction: beyond the separation of church and state: secularism as conversion 1. The authorized narrative and crystalline structure of conversion in Augustine's Confessions 2. Toleration and conversion in Locke's letters: it is 'above all things necessary to distinguish' 3. The crystalline structure of conversion: Henri Bergson's Two Sources 4. Saint John (Rawls), the miracle of secular reason 5. The wish for a better life: Stanley Cavell's critique of the social contract Conclusion: from Supernovas into The Deep: secularism as conversion, a conversion of secularism Index.