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The Shadow of God - Kant, Hegel, and the Passage from Heaven to History (Hardcover)
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The Shadow of God - Kant, Hegel, and the Passage from Heaven to History (Hardcover)
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A bold and beautifully written exploration of the "afterlife" of
God, showing how apparently secular habits of mind in fact retain
the structure of religious thought. Once in the West, our lives
were bounded by religion. Then we were guided out of the darkness
of faith, we are often told, by the cold light of science and
reason. To be modern was to reject the religious for the secular
and rational. In a bold retelling of philosophical history, Michael
Rosen explains the limits of this story, showing that many modern
and apparently secular ways of seeing the world were in fact
profoundly shaped by religion. The key thinkers, Rosen argues, were
the German Idealists, as they sought to reconcile reason and
religion. It was central to Kant's philosophy that, if God is both
just and assigns us to heaven or hell for eternity, we must know
what is required of us and be able to choose freely. In trying to
live moral lives, Kant argued, we are engaged in a collective
enterprise as members of a "Church invisible" working together to
achieve justice in history. As later Idealists moved away from
Kant's ideas about personal immortality, this idea of "historical
immortality" took center stage. Through social projects that
outlive us we maintain a kind of presence after death. Conceptions
of historical immortality moved not just into the universalistic
ideologies of liberalism and revolutionary socialism but into
nationalist and racist doctrines that opposed them. But how, after
global wars and genocide, can we retain faith in any conception of
shared moral progress and, if not, what is to become of the idea of
historical immortality? That is our present predicament. A seamless
blend of philosophy and intellectual history, The Shadow of God is
a profound exploration of secular modernity's theistic inheritance.
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