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After the Paris attacks: It’s time for a new Enlightenment

“What would happen, if religious language were to be taken more seriously in secular Europe and the preventable deaths in the global South of millions from hunger and war was to be denounced as ‘blasphemy?’” Jürgen Habermas: the “substance of the human” can only be rescued by societies that “are able to introduce into the secular domain the essential contents of their religious traditions”