Secularism and Cosmopolitanism

Critical Hypotheses on Religion and Politics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

AvÉtienne Balibar

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What is the relationship between cosmopolitanism and secularism—the worldwide and the worldly? While cosmopolitan politics may seem inherently secular, existing forms of secularism risk undermining the universality of cosmopolitanism because they privilege the European tradition over all others and transform particular historical norms into enunciations of truth, valid for all cultures and all epochs. In this book, the noted philosopher Étienne Balibar explores the tensions lurking at this troubled nexus in order to advance a truly democratic and emancipatory cosmopolitanism, which requires a secularization of secularism itself.Balibar argues for the idea of the universal against its particular dominant institutions. He questions the assumptions that underlie popular ideas of secularism and religion and outlines the importance of a new critique for the contemporary world. Balibar holds that conflicts between religious and secular discourses need to be reframed from a point of view that takes into account the cultural hybridization, migration and mobility, and transformation of borders that have reshaped the postcolonial age. Among the topics discussed are the uses and misuses of the category of religion and the religious, the paradoxical genealogy of monotheism, French laïcité’s identitarian turn, and the implications of the responses to the Charlie Hebdo attacks for an extended definition of free speech. Going beyond circumscribed notions of religion and the public sphere, Secularism and Cosmopolitanism is a profound rethinking of identity and difference that seeks to make room for a renewed political imagination.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-06-19
Mått140 x 216 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEuropean Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Antal sidor288
FörlagColumbia University Press
ISBN9780231168601
ÖversättareGoshgarian, G. M.

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Étienne Balibar is emeritus professor of philosophy at Paris X Nanterre and emeritus professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine. He is also professor of modern European philosophy at Kingston University, London, and professor of French and comparative literature at Columbia University. His books include Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy (Columbia, 2015).

PrefaceIntroduction. Critique in the Twenty-First Century: Political Economy Still, Religion AgainPart I: Saeculum1. Circumstances and Objectives2. Secularism and Cosmopolitanism: An Aporia?3. Double Binds: Politics of the Veil4. Cosmo-Politics and Conflicts between Universalities5. Finishing with Religion?6. Culture, Religion, or Ideology7. Religious Revolutions and Anthropological Differences8. Secularism Secularized: The Vanishing Mediator9. EnvoiPart II: Essays10. Note on the Origins and Uses of “Monotheism”11. “God Will Not Remain Silent”. Zionism, Messianism, and Nationalism12. What Future for Laïcité? Part III: Statements13. Three Words for the Dead and the Living (after Charlie Hebdo)14. On "Freedom of Expression" and the Question of "Blasphemy"15. Identitarian LaïcitéNotesIndex

One of our best European activist philosophers here considers the question of secularism, religion, and cosmopolitanism in a broad range: Islam, the historical contradictions of secularism in the Israeli state, the implications of French laïcité, the history of the term 'monotheism' from European antiquity, and serious considerations of gender at every step. 'Generalized heresy as philosophical fiction' is, for Balibar, our persistent, repeated, heterogeneous, and collective political task of invention. Those of us trying to work away from the Abrahamic and toward the rural subaltern electorate find in Balibar a powerful ally.