Akeel Bilgrami

Akeel Bilgrami is the Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy and the Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities. He is the author of Belief and Meaning (Blackwell), Self-Knowledge and Resentment (Harvard University Press) and Politics and the Moral Psychology of Identity (forthcoming, Harvard University Press) as well as over fifty articles in philosophy and in theoretical issues in politics and culture.

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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

Deus absconditus and disenchantment

secular_age.jpgCharles Taylor’s A Secular Age is an inspired yet rigorously argued Wagnerian effort to analyze the distinctive anxieties of modern intellectual and social life, by one of the most important and interesting philosophers of the last five decades. I will pick up one strand that illustrates Taylor’s central themes of religion and secularity and the conceptual and historical continuities and discontinuities between them: the process of so-called ‘disenchantment’ that is supposed to mark our modernity [...]

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