Is Critique Secular?: Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech
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In this volume, four leading thinkers of our times confront the paradoxes and dilemmas attending the supposed stand-off between Islam and liberal democratic values. Taking the controversial Danish cartoons of Mohammad as a point of departure, Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and Saba Mahmood inquire into the evaluative frameworks at stake in understanding the conflicts between blasphemy and free speech, between religious taboos and freedoms of thought and expression, and between secular and religious world views. Is the language of the law an adequate mechanism for the adjudication of such conflicts? What other modes of discourse are available for the navigation of such differences in multicultural and multi-religious societies? What is the role of critique in such an enterprise? These are among the pressing questions this volume addresses.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0823251691
ISBN13:9780823251698
Release Date:May 2013
Publisher:Fordham University Press
Length:176 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"
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