Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xiii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Public reason as a neutral mediator in pluralist democracies in John Rawls’s political philosophy 5
6. Introduction to Parts Two and Three 102
7. 2. Practical reason in the public sphere: Jürgen Habermas’s rehabilitation of religion as a resource within the project of modernity 103
8. 3. Religions as co-foundational of the public space in Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutical philosophy 184
9. 4. Conclusion of the comparison of the three positions 280
10. Bibliography 302
11. Person Index 312
12. Subject Index 315