Post-Secular Society, Tolerance and Translation

Foundations for a Radical Pluralism

Abstract

This paper has two goals. The first one is reading through some of the topics adressed during the last few years by the german philosopher Jürgen Habermas, as a representative of liberalism: a) the notion of post-secular society, its conditions and challenges; b) tolerance and the multiculturalism; and c) translation as a mediator between the secular thinking of the West and the different traditional religious worldviews, from several origins, so that the difficulty of the understanding between these two could be solved. Secondly, it seeks to expand Habermas outlook with the assistance of two authors that have other traditions of thought, and that allow to complement and to tinge some of the proposals by Habermas: Michael Walzer, as a representative of communitarianism, and Peter Lamborn Wilson, aka Hakim Bey, as a representative of postanarchism. All of this in order to build the foundations for a more radical way of thinking about the phaenomenon of pluralism.