... Marx secular reason secular critique critique of religion socialism All the prominent concepts of the critique of capitalism are socialized anthropological concepts. They are not secularized theological concepts, as Carl Schmitt would famously have it, but effects of how the concept of...

... 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...

...Stuart J. Murray REVIEW ESSAY MYTH AS CRITIQUE?: REVIEW OF MICHEL FOUCAULT'S "SOCIETY MUST BE DEFENDED" Stuart J. Murray Michel Foucault, "Society Must Be Defended": Lectures at the College de France, 1975-1976, Translated by David Macey New York: Picador...

... targeted for critique.” 23 Since its ostensible goal is to produce the “ultimate human,” which, in its inclusive frame, requires it to keep expelling the inhuman, secularism’s core promise is, as Stephens teaches us, what is in perpetual crisis. 24 And the ongoing crisis of this demarcation, Esmeir...

...Zachary Manfredi Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 Recent Histories and Uncertain Futures Contemporary Critiques of International Human Rights and Humanitarianism zachary manfredi Human rights? Through a hard- fought battle they must be wrestled from those who would seek...

... exosomatic condition of all knowledge. This can be opened up from a reconsideration of Kant’s account of intuition, understanding, and reason that must also be a critique of the absence of the technological in Kant’s account of the schematism. Armed with this critique, we can understand the data economy as...

...Ananda Abeysekara Abstract Critiques of the concept of “Protestant Buddhism” claim to tell a different story about the relation between religion and modernity (“Protestantism”) in South Asia. They seek to reconstruct the temporal relation between the past and the present, contesting postcolonial...

... staying power, 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...

..., Modernity . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2003 . Asad Talal . “ Free Speech, Blasphemy, and Secular Criticism .” In Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech , by Asad Talal , Brown Wendy , Butler Judith , and Mahmood Saba , 20 – 63...

... drug- and “prostitute-riddled past.”3 As an Anglo- American category, moral turpitude enfolds residual religious ideas about the body, character, and conduct with secular understandings of sex, race, and citizen- ship. At the borders of these categories, as well as at the...

... rhetoric 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...

... 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 and...

... writing several pieces about prerevolutionary upheavals for the Italian 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...

... consequently our own experience becomes the object of our attention.5 This is a mental attitude available at least since Augustine, Taylor tells us, though it is not widely distributed until the early modern period. Such re- fl exivity is often central to stories of secularization, for it gives to...

... reconsideration of the sacralizing force of capital with and beyond Marx, to a critique of a form of state sovereignty pred- icated on the erasure of subjects deemed “threats” to the social body. Situating these pieces within the broader context of relevant approaches in the fi eld of political...

... wink and a nod the famous critique of politics found in The German Ideology, that all struggles within the State . . . are merely the illu- sory forms in which the real struggles of the different classes are fought out among one another Today, in the eerily silent land...

... REVIEW ESSAY wink and a nod the famous critique of politics found in The German Ideology, that all struggles within the State . . . are merely the illu- sory forms in which the real struggles of the different classes are fought out among one another Today, in the...

..., “life is already 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...

...- itics, popular culture, and corporate capital is the purchase 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...

... “Muslim Jews” does par- ticipate in turning our attention (and a few other things) around, and anew, to the matter of religion, it could confi rm for us that we have left behind what Charles Taylor has recently—not to men- tion, strangely—termed “the secular age.”25 But it hardly brings us “back...