Постсекуларност и етика на ангажираността
Post-secularity and Ethics of Engagement

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the interpretation of post-secularity as a state of the processes of modernization and on the public role played in these processes by religion. In this connection the author offers some generalizations regarding alternative models of explanation and conceptualization based on the guiding principle of secularism and desecularization, and discusses the consequences these models have for the full understanding and recognition of pluralism. Against this backdrop, the analysis closes in on the problem of the connection between liberal democracy and post-secularity, especially on interpretations of this connection proposed by John Rawls and Jiirgen Habermas. The attempts to overcome the deficits of classical liberalism (through a motivational support for neutrality), and to distribute the asymmetrical burden without discrimination by including radical difference in a common political project, are illustrated by reference to events that occurred in 2013 in the Balkans. The generalizations derived from these observations help provide a critical assessment of the formal and procedural ethics that permeates Rawls "political liberalism" or Habermas's "Kantian republicanism", and point to the need for complementing this ethics with ethics of engagement that seems to altogether transcend the limits of Kantian thought.

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