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... 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...

..., 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...

... of philosophy as theology, a territory that opens up when theology refuses to subordinate itself to “secular reason.” Milbank marks this territory with the term “paradox.” It is arrived at when we take the equation of the good, the true, and the beautiful serious- ly. Milbank describes this territory...

... ); and Talal Asad , Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason ( New York : Columbia University Press , 2018 ). Cited in the text as gi , ss , and st , respectively. Copyright © 2020 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2020 “Everyone appeals to past authorities...

... relationship” ( Asad, “Free Speech, Blasphemy, and Secular Criticism,” 46 ; see also Mahmood, “Religious Reason and Secular Affect” ). The political scientist Andrew F. March, however, turns this question about a living relationship into a question about truth with a remarkable verdict: “The fact that people...

..., presumptions that implicitly forecast a combination of reason, science, liberal democracy, and the market as dethroning religious political authority and energies. Secular Prejudice in Thought Nietzsche wrote that accurately apprehending the origin and de- velopment...

... of the realm of reason. And yet, it remains important not only for its construction as archaic but also for its haunting presence in other terms of moral condemnation unto secular damnation. There is an extensive literature on the history of blasphemy and the law, tracing in rich...

... as his “anthropological skepticism,” 4 his “antitheoreticist style of reasoning.” 5 Asad does not advance a critical project (critique as a mode of establishing conditions of possibility, as antiessentialist historicism, or as normative comparison), nor does he seek to locate particular problems...

... “the simple distinction between secular criticism (freedom and reason) and religious criticism (intolerance and obscurantism).” 12 This consensus over what Said meant by the designation of religion or the religious obtains even as many have argued that Said’s use of these terms did not refer to any...

...,” and 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...

..., 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...

... of faith.” 56 This shifted threshold, situated as a belief between self and world, yields a genre of poetics— arts of living, of perception, and of the self—that seek to suture the two realms at the same time these genres are banished from the prosaic, reasoned speech of the secular. 57...

.... . London : Verso , 2014 . Asad Talal . Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2003 . Asad Talal . Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins...

... known, treat secularization as “an inexo- rable and progressive tendency in capitalist orders generally, and liberal democracy in particular”; they likewise “implicitly fore- cast a combination of reason, science, liberal democracy and the market as dethroning religious political authority...

... DeLanda, Manuel. Philosophy and Simulation: The Emergence of Syn- thetic Reason. London: Continuum, 2011. DeLoughrey, Elizabeth, and George B. Handley, eds. Postcolonial Ecolo- gies: Literatures of the Environment. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011...

... To speak of the secular is to speak of the world. Or, more precisely, it is to speak of the age of the world, which for Christianity marked a time between the Christ’s advent and return, and which for the secular modern came to mark a time in which “religion” would be superseded. However one goes...

... of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity; and Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam. alan bass is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City, and on the graduate philosophy faculty of the New School for Social Research. He is the author...

... has yet to fi nd evidence for a “Semitic Liberation Movement To the extent that one can testify to the growth of “Semitic” studies, and to the increased respectability of scholarly studies on “the Jews of Islam,” there is reason to doubt the wis- dom of introducing yet another link...

... 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...

... and the restoration of secular politics (a threat that had remained since the Islamic revolution of 1979). Ghamari-Tabrizi suggests that had we embodied a critical humility toward these events and embraced their singular forces (rather than defining them within a limited binary frame), their outcomes might have been...