Between Naturalism and Religion: Philosophical Essays

Introduction 1

Part I The Intersubjective Constitution of Norm-governed Thought 9

1 Public Space and Political Public Sphere – The Biographical Roots of Two Motifs in my Thought 11

2 Communicative Action and the Detranscendentalized “Use of Reason” 24

3 On the Architectonics of Discursive Differentiation: A Brief Response to a Major Controversy 77

Part II Religious Pluralism and Civic Solidarity 99

4 Prepolitical Foundations of the Constitutional State? 101

5 Religion in the Public Sphere: Cognitive Presuppositions for the “Public Use of Reason” by Religious and Secular Citizens 114

Part III Naturalism and Religion 149

6 Freedom and Determinism 151

7 “I Myself am Part of Nature” – Adorno on the Intrication of Reason in Nature: Reflections on the Relation between Freedom and Unavailability 181

8 The Boundary between Faith and Knowledge: On the Reception and Contemporary Importance of Kant’s Philosophy of Religion 209

Part IV Tolerance 249

9 Religious Tolerance as Pacemaker for Cultural Rights 251

10 Equal Treatment of Cultures and the Limits of Postmodern Liberalism 271

11 A Political Constitution for the Pluralist World Society? 312

Index 353