In:
Théologiques, Consortium Erudit, Vol. 22, No. 1 ( 2015-09-21), p. 27-39
Abstract:
Why does integration — and this means: living in diverse societies, mainly in the West — so often fail? The text explores two lines of thought. One is concerned with a substructure of blindness and deafness in Western politics, blindness for postcolonial critique, deafness for the stories that result in “history”. The other investigates the concept of “culture” and the reframing of “culture” as “race”. European Enlightenment thought prepared the ground for notions and social practices of universalism and justice and shapes our moral instruments until today. At the same time, European Enlightenment gave birth to the concept of race. Today, we have to deal with this ambivalent foundation of (moral) thought: We rely on a concept of (Western) reason which enables science and society to classify, to sort. And to sort out. What are the tasks for on responsibilities of different “players”: politics, societies, sciences and religions?
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1492-1413
,
1188-7109
Language:
French
Publisher:
Consortium Erudit
Publication Date:
2015
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2126036-9
SSG:
1
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