Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech - The Townsend Papers in the Humanities
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780982329412 |
Publisher: | Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humani |
Imprint: | Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities |
Pub date: | 29 Dec 2009 |
DEWEY: | 323.443088297 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 154 |
Weight: | 285g |
Height: | 229mm |
Width: | 152mm |
Spine width: | 3mm |