Is Critique Secular?: Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech - Hardcover

Asad, Talal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0823251683 ISBN 13: 9780823251681

Verlag: Fordham University Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Asad Talal Brown Wendy Butler Judith Mahmood Saba

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Críticas:

This original and provocative book is an invitation to go beyond political niceties and engage issues of religious difference with candor. Both scholarly and engaging, the book uplifts the level of public debate on the entanglement of religious and secular reasoning in the making of modern publics. -- -Veena Das * Johns Hopkins University * This conversation among Asad, Brown, Butler, and Mahmood offers an important snapshot of the rich debates on post-secularism and critiques of secularism. These essays provide succinct and accessible discussions of key issues in these debates. -- -Annika Thiem * Villanova University * I can't imagine a set of more rigorous, humane and insightful interlocutors on this vital aspect of the public sphere. -- -Jonathan Boyarin * University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill *

Reseña del editor:

This volume interrogates settled ways of thinking about the seemingly interminable conflict between religious and secular values in our world today. What are the assumptions and resources internal to secular conceptions of critique that help or hinder our understanding of one of the most pressing conflicts of our times? Taking as their point of departure the question of whether critique belongs exclusively to forms of liberal democracy that define themselves in opposition to religion, these authors consider the case of the "Danish cartoon controversy" of 2005. They offer accounts of reading, understanding, and critique for offering a way to rethink conventional oppositions between free speech and religious belief, judgment and violence, reason and prejudice, rationality and embodied life. The book, first published in 2009, has been updated for the present edition with a new Preface by the authors.

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• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0823251683
• ISBN 13: 9780823251681
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 172