In 2012 an unpublished book by the Austrian legal philosopher Hans Kelsen, Secular Religion, has been posthumously published. This book, written by Kelsen between 1952 and 1964 in the United States, severely criticizes those theories of politics and culture that misinterpret modern social philosophy, science and politics as new religions, mainly adopting the controversial concept of “secular religión.” In the first part of the paper, we reconstruct the genesis of the book and the complex events that led to its final version, and we underline the motives that led Kelsen to write this vehement polemic in defense of the spirit of modernity, and eventually to withdraw it. In the second part of the paper, we investigate some of the main methodological and theoretical contributions that this work, albeit its critical tenor, is able to give to an anthropology of modernity.
Nel 2012 è stata pubblicata Secular Religion, un’opera inedita del filosofo del diritto austriaco Hans Kelsen, scritta tra il 1952 e il 1964 negli Stati Uniti. In quest’opera Kelsen muove una serie di serrate critiche a quelle teorie della politica e della cultura che, alla luce principalmente del concetto di “religione secolare”, interpretano erroneamente la filosofia sociale, la scienza e la politica moderne come nuove religioni. Nella prima parte di questo saggio, vengono ripercorse le complesse vicende che hanno portato alla versione finale del libro di Kelsen, sottolineando i motivi che lo hanno indotto a scrivere quest’opera polemica in difesa dello spirito della modernità, e da ultimo a ritirarla. Nella seconda parte sono indagati alcuni dei principali contributi metodologici e teorici che quest’opera, pur nel suo impianto critico, è in grado di offrire ad una antropologia della modernità
Di Lucia, P., Passerini Glazel, L. (2015). Religions without god? Hans kelsen, anthropologist of modernity. REVISTA DE ANTROPOLOGIA SOCIAL, 24, 221-243 [10.5209/rev_RASO.2015.v24.50654].
Religions without god? Hans kelsen, anthropologist of modernity
Passerini Glazel, L
2015
Abstract
In 2012 an unpublished book by the Austrian legal philosopher Hans Kelsen, Secular Religion, has been posthumously published. This book, written by Kelsen between 1952 and 1964 in the United States, severely criticizes those theories of politics and culture that misinterpret modern social philosophy, science and politics as new religions, mainly adopting the controversial concept of “secular religión.” In the first part of the paper, we reconstruct the genesis of the book and the complex events that led to its final version, and we underline the motives that led Kelsen to write this vehement polemic in defense of the spirit of modernity, and eventually to withdraw it. In the second part of the paper, we investigate some of the main methodological and theoretical contributions that this work, albeit its critical tenor, is able to give to an anthropology of modernity.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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