Between Naturalism and Religion : Philosophical Essays (Hardcover)

Introduction 1

Part I The Intersubjective Constitution of Norm-goverend Thought 9

1 Public Space and Political Public Sphere: The Biographical Roots of Two Motifs in My Thought 11

2 Communicative Action and the Detranscendentalized "use of reason" 24

3 On the Architectonics of Discursive Differentiation: A Brief Response to a Major Controversy 77

Part II Religious Pluralism and Civic Solidarity 99

4 Prepolitical Foundations of the Constitutional State?

5 Religion in the Public Sphere: Cognitive Presuppositions for the "public use of reason" by Religious and Secular Citizens Freedom and Determinism 114

Part III Naturalism and Religion 149

6 Freedom and Determinisim 151

7 "I Myself am Part of Nature": Adorno on the Intrication of Reason in Nature: Reflections on the Relation between Freedom and Unavailability 181

8 The Boundary Between Faith and Knowledge: on the Reception and Contemporary Importance of Kant's Philosophy of Religion 209

Part IV Tolerance 249

9 Religious Tolerance as Pacemaker for Cultural Rights 251

10 Equal Treatment of Cultures and the Limits of Postmodern Liberalism 271

11 A Political Constitution for the Pluralist World Society? 312

Index 353