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... mysticism, anthropological critiques of the secular, work in Black studies, critiques of the subject, and François Laruelle’s non-philosophical thought. The result links immanence more intimately with dispossession than with the subject’s self-possession—and entwines it with the undercommons, as the atopic...

... if the anthropological concept of religion that supported it collapses. It is therefore impossible to maintain the critique of capital as it is while refusing the critique of religion that lies at its foundation. Copyright © 2020 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2020 Karl Marx secular reason secular critique...

..., namely, the power to decide what stays (and what does not). The world survives.4 It certainly survives its Christian formation, but if it does so through an apparent identifi cation with the secular, it may nonetheless survive the critique of the secular. More essential...

... it virtually impossible to understand how the coherence of tradition works within a genealogy. Here we are back to the flawed notion of a hybrid tradition. 89. Mahmood’s Religious Difference in a Secular Age is a powerful critique of them. For other critiques of the concepts, see Abeysekara...

... not revolve about himself. . . . The immediate task of philosophy . . . is to unmask human self- alienation in its secular form now that it has been unmasked in its sacred form. — Marx, Introduction to the Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right Secular...

..., blasphemy, and betrayal. Meanwhile, in your contribution to Is Critique Secular? you note that “every new tradition . . . is founded in a discursive rupture—which means through a kind of violence.” 15 Taken together, these suggest not only that tradition is a space of even violent contestation (already...

... to “the alienated capacities of the human imagination, a system of ideological deception and coercive authority.” 11 Even for Talal Asad, who writes in nuanced and direct opposition to Said on these points and who places Said within a broader genealogy of the secularity of critique, Said merely reproduced...

..., anthropology, religion and secularism studies, philosophy, and critical race theory via the figure of the network and the ever-contentious frame of belief in order to ask not only what it means to live in a networked world but also, perhaps more important, what it means to believe that we live in one...

... Secularism: Islam, Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2012 . Anidjar Gil . Blood: A Critique of Christianity . New York : Columbia University Press , 2014 . Anidjar Gil . Semites: Race, Religion, Literature . Stanford, CA...

... was supposed to be inessential to it for genuine knowledge” ( Asad, Secular Translations , 62–63 ). 58. For a helpful rendition of Palamas’s debates with those who challenged and critiqued hesychastic practice, see Bradshaw, Aristotle East and West , chap. 9. 59. Gregorios, “al-Rūḥānīyya al...

... daily newspaper Corriere della sera ( fi , 60) . In Iran, Foucault was able to embody the modality of social critique he described as an attitude , an ethos, and a philosophical life. This philosophical ethos is characterized as a “critical ontology of ourselves” and at the same time considers...

... Like her treatment of the question Is Critique Secular?, this piece be- gins by undoing “the secular prejudice”— not, however, by simply refuting it, but by problematizing the historical assumptions and conceits that animate it in the present.43 Such presumptions, both long- standing and well...

...- plete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, vol. 3 (Baltimore: Johns Hop- kins University Press, 2012), 109– 10. 35. Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Saba Mahmood, Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech (Berkeley: Townsend Center...

... this bur- • RETOOLING DEMOCRACY AND FEMINISM 125 geoning literature commands within liberal feminist circles and a general lack of critique of the reductionism these texts enact in the name of saving Muslim women. The wide support these accounts have...

... lost . . . already on the other side.” 1 This queer place of subjectivity yields “the point of view from which one can embrace the whole of one’s existence as if from outside,” a perspectival position that authorizes a radical critique of social inequalities and the violence of the political...

..., The Enlightenment Bible (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005). Gianni Vattimo, Dialogue with Nietzsche (New York: Columbia 178 BOOKS RECEIVED University Press, 2006). Hent de Vries, Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno...

... department and interdisciplinary graduate programs in criti- cal theory and in women, gender, and sexuality. Her books include Walled States, Waning Sovereignty (2010), Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Empire and Identity (2006), Edgework (2005), Left Legalism/Left Critique (2002, coedited...

... embodies a unique moment of secular communion and Fassin: The Predicament of Humanitarianism 37 secular redemption. By using the language of a political theology that has little to do with Carl Schmitt’s, I attempt to restitute what I see as the profound meaning...

... a critique of the idea of Christian incarnation as it oper- ates in the practices of commodity-fetishism.8 For Marx, "Christi- anity with its religious cult of man in the abstract, more particular- ly in its bourgeois development, i.e., in Protestantism, Deism, etc...

... of breaks in the times that could lead to their transformation—and thus our own.      The reason, to move quickly, for noting all this about the critique of secularity is to draw attention to the fact that it has achieved one of the most perspicacious recent...