Religion and Secularism in Liberalism

Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1998 (113):79-104 (1998)
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Abstract

Emmanuel Levinas has provided a hermeneutical key for reinterpreting the Western intellectual tradition. Certain recurring conundrums of Western philosophy led him to regard ethics above all other modes of inquiry and to emphasize infinity rather than totality. Yet, the primacy of the ethical cannot do what he wants it to do. To reinterpret the Western intellectual tradition, it is necessary to shift emphasis to the distinction between infinity and totality. This highlights the religious dimension of secularism, i.e., how modern liberalism still nurtures a religious project, even if that project is itself the result of secularization. It also facilitates a…

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