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Is Critique Secular?: Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech
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Is Critique Secular?: Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech Paperback - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Talal Asad; Wendy Brown; Judith Butler


From the publisher

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.

Details

  • Title Is Critique Secular?: Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech
  • Author Talal Asad; Wendy Brown; Judith Butler
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 154
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Townsend Center for the Humanities
  • Date 2009-11
  • ISBN 9780982329412 / 0982329415
  • Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 6 x 9.02 x 0.36 in (15.24 x 22.91 x 0.91 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Freedom of speech, Islam and secularism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009033961
  • Dewey Decimal Code 323.443

About the author

Talal Asad is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. Judith Butler is Maxine Elliott Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature; Wendy Brown is Professor of Political Science; Saba Mahmood is Associate Professor of Social Cultural Anthropology, all at the University of California, Berkeley.