Ron Beiner
Biographic Data
| ID | 9180417 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ron Beiner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ron |
| FAMILY NAME | Beiner |
| SIGNATURE | BEINER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Civil Religion in Political Thought
Let's start by noting a substantial ambiguity in the meaning of the term civil religion. In his “Dissertation sur la politique des Romains dans la religion,” Montesquieu celebrated the Romans for their exemplary capacity to “put the gods in submission to politics,” and to “fashion religion for the sake of the state” as opposed to a disposition of “the state for the sake of religion.” This captures very directly the sense of civil religion as the …
Philosophy in a Time of Lost Spirit
In this collection of his essays and reviews, Ronald Beiner probes the boundaries of our social world and develops his own intellectual challenge to liberalism in a critical review of contemporary thinkers
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Philosophy in a Time of Lost Spirit
In this collection of his essays and reviews, Ronald Beiner probes the boundaries of our social world and develops his own intellectual challenge to liberalism in a critical review of contemporary thinkers
Civil Religion in Political Thought
Let's start by noting a substantial ambiguity in the meaning of the term civil religion. In his “Dissertation sur la politique des Romains dans la religion,” Montesquieu celebrated the Romans for their exemplary capacity to “put the gods in submission to politics,” and to “fashion religion for the sake of the state” as opposed to a disposition of “the state for the sake of religion.” This captures very directly the sense of civil religion as the …
Epistemology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · Appropriation (1 work) · Civil Religion (1 work) · Civil society (1 work) · Communitarianism (1 work) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Liberalism (1 work)