Comments on: The Story of Secularism (I) http://hepburnmusings.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/the-story-of-secularism/ Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:24:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: kns http://hepburnmusings.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/the-story-of-secularism/#comment-2311 kns Thu, 08 May 2008 22:43:23 +0000 http://hepburnmusings.wordpress.com/?p=295#comment-2311 It's a tough work to parse and yet appreciating the breadth of its analysis can be equally challenging. It's this attempt, this kind of philosophical history that I find so enticing because historians themselves can often be so reluctant to go for the grand analysis. Even if it doesn't get everything right, it suggestive richness is well worth the effort. You might also be interested in "The Immanent Frame" blog on the SSRC website, to which Taylor contributes, if you haven't found it already. It’s a tough work to parse and yet appreciating the breadth of its analysis can be equally challenging. It’s this attempt, this kind of philosophical history that I find so enticing because historians themselves can often be so reluctant to go for the grand analysis. Even if it doesn’t get everything right, it suggestive richness is well worth the effort.

You might also be interested in “The Immanent Frame” blog on the SSRC website, to which Taylor contributes, if you haven’t found it already.

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