{"product_id":"pragmatism-and-the-postsecular","title":"Pragmatism and the Postsecular","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOffering a postsecular reading of Ralph Waldo Emerson and William James, \u003ci\u003ePragmatism and the Postsecular \u003c\/i\u003econtributes to an interdisciplinary discourse about gift theories across literary, religious, and philosophical studies.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this study the focus is on Emerson and James' religious language of gifts. We see how they interpret the reception of gifts as dynamic sources of agency, inspiration, and empowerment-the kinds of moral sources that Charles Taylor worries might be increasingly unavailable in our secular age. Tae Sung applies a similar non-economic reading of dynamic gifts to American writers including Herman Melville, Ralph Ellison, Marilynne Robinson, and Min Jin Lee. His approach reframes related debates around religious ethics (after Derrida and John Milbank) and multicultural politics (after Richard Rorty and Taylor).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Aimed at readers interested in the complex relationship between the religious and secular in the US, Sung's reading of pragmatism challenges us to reconsider how we understand gifts. The goal of such a reconsideration is to locate common ethical and political ground between secular liberalism and religious traditionalism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57427655819608,"sku":"9781350572966","price":97.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/pragmatism-and-the-postsecular","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}