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publication year 2023

AUGUSTO BARBERA

Secularism

At the Roots of the West

Like all founding concepts, secularism is a difficult idea. Maybe that’s why many countries’ constitutions don’t explicitly mention it, despite its pervasiveness. The author of this book wonders if this is the concept that most distinguishes the West from the rest of the world. Secularism implies the autonomy of law from the ethical-religious sphere, from which law effectively arises but from which it historically emancipated itself. Secularism guarantees the autonomy of both civil affairs and religious matters. Secularism sits at the heart of political and religious pluralism. Secularism is a method capable of uniting believers and non-believers and creating the conditions for the coexistence of divergent outlooks on life. Secularism repudiates antagonistic fundamentalism and dogmatic closure. In sum, secularism has many faces, and the author reviews them one by one, recomposing them in a unified perspective including them all, which indeed is the main feature of our civilization. This informative book is written by an expert who plays the role of the teacher. He adopts a compelling point of view, taking into account the war which sets the West against the non-secularism of Putin’s Russia.

Augusto Barbera is emeritus professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Bologna and currently sits on Italy’s Constitutional Court.

Una premessa
I. La lunga marcia
1. I sentieri e i volti della laicità
2. L’autonomia del diritto dalla sfera etico-religiosa
3. La tormentata separazione fra potere politico e potere ecclesiastico
II. Le tre rivoluzioni dell’Occidente
1. L’affermarsi del costituzionalismo
2. Le religioni nello spazio pubblico
3. Le «religioni secolari»: tra regimi nazifascisti e regimi comunisti
III. La laicità in Italia
1. Il tormentato ingresso
2. Le oscillazioni della giurisprudenza costituzionale
3. La laicità: un crocevia tra vari principi
IV. Oltre il diritto
1. Le sfide per il costituzionalismo liberaldemocratico
2. L’irrompere dei «nuovi diritti»: una nuova religione secolare?
3. La laicità come «metodo»
4. Una nuova Onnipotenza?
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See also

copertina Storia della Democrazia cristiana
copertina Presidenzialismo a metà
copertina Le vie del diritto romano
copertina La proprietà delle idee