Religion and the Project of Autonomy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4482063 |
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| Authors | Karl E Smith (La Trobe University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-47 |
| Publication date | 2007-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0725513607082000 |
| OpenAlex | W1986967134 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
Despite his own observations that autonomy is never complete, never once-and-for-all - in short, that autonomy is always relatively more-or-less; or rather, human subjects, institutions and societies can only ever be more-or-less autonomous, and thus more-or-less heteronomous - Castoriadis nevertheless polarizes autonomy and heteronomy. From the polarized perspective, then, he maintains that religion is intrinsically heteronomous, and thus intrinsically antithetical to the project of autonomy. By exploring Taylor's more nuanced understanding of the varieties of religious experience, I argue in this article that there must be room for religious belief within an autonomous society, and that religiosity per se is not incompatible with the project of creating an autonomous society
Autonomy · Disenchantment · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Heteronomy · Political science · Politics · Religiosity · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
| Highly cited | No |
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