Marcuse and "the Christian Bourgeois Concept of Freedom"

Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2013 (165):49-67 (2013)
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Abstract

Contemporary theorization of the post-secular involves, and further invites, philosophical and historical reflection on the nature of the secular. Charles Taylor, in A Secular Age, has warned against what he terms “subtraction stories” of the emergence of modern secularism, narratives built around simplistic images of the rejection of, and liberation from, a Christian age of faith; these polemical confections need to be replaced, he argues, by accounts that register the complex processes by which secularism emerged out of the Christian, and how it bears the deep traces of that origin.1 Over seventy years before Taylor's injunction, Marcuse can be seen…

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