Is Critique Secular?: Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech
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 reth…
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Weitere Autoren: Brown, Wendy / Butler, Judith
- ISBN: 978-0-8232-5169-8
- EAN: 9780823251698
- Produktnummer: 13775933
- Verlag: Fordham Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B14.9 cm x D1.5 cm 276 g
- Auflage: 2. A.
- Gewicht: 276
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Talal Asad was born in Saudi Arabia and educated in Britain. He now teaches anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
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