{"id":3773,"date":"2017-02-20T09:50:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T09:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/veranstaltung\/what-future-for-secularism"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:04:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:04:30","slug":"what-future-for-secularism","status":"publish","type":"kreisky_event","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/veranstaltung\/what-future-for-secularism","title":{"rendered":"WHAT FUTURE FOR SECULARISM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Etienne Balibar<\/strong><br \/>French philosopher, Professor emeritus, Universit\u00e9 de Paris-Ouest<\/p>\n<p>The question: What Future for Secularism? Calls for a critical examination of a category that was long considered coextensive with Modernity, and is now considered by some as outdated. The radically new distributions of activities, powers, and populations, created by Globalisation, have now generated at the same time a more urgent demand for cosmopolitan shared ideals and a more problematic articulation of cosmopolitanism and secularism, in a world where it is a question of the \u201creturn of the religious\u201d, but also of the defence of the common environment, which is quintessentially a rationalist value. The lecture will discuss this aporia on the basis of a renewed critique of religion, where traditional versions of secularism are not left immune.<\/p>\n<p>Moderator: <strong>Isolde Charim<\/strong>, philosopher, author<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Speech by Etienne Balibar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/SECULARISMVienna.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SPEECH<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Etienne BalibarFrench philosopher, Professor emerit., Universit&eacute; de Paris-Ouest The question: What Future for Secularism? Calls for a critical examination of a category that was long considered coextensive with Modernity, and is now considered by some as outdated. 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