Ujęzykowienie sacrum i jego ewolucja w myśli Jürgena Habermasa
The linguistification of the sacred and its evolution in Jürgen Habermas’s thought

Author(s): Kamil Aksiuto
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Political Theory, Political Sciences, Security and defense
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Émile Durkheim; Jürgen Habermas; Leszek Kołakowski; religion; secularisation; postsecular society; linguistification of the sacred; Max Weber
Summary/Abstract: The ‘linguistification of the sacred’ belongs to the most overlooked concepts in the whole body of theory by Jürgen Habermas. First introduced in his seminal work Theory of Communicative Action, it reappears in Habermas’s later writings, especially after the so-called ‘post-secular turn’ in his thought. The article aims to trace this concept’s development and shed some light on the shifting functions it seems to perform in Habermas’s theorising. Furthermore, it juxtaposes Habermas’s later understanding of ‘linguistification of the sacred’ with the account of religion and the sacred developed by Polish philosopher Leszek Kołakowski.

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