Secularism and cosmopolitanism : critical hypotheses on religion and politics
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Secularism and cosmopolitanism : critical hypotheses on religion and politics
(European perspectives)
Columbia University Press, c2018
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Saeculum : culture, religion, idéologie
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  Yamagata
  Fukushima
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
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  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
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Includes index
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Description
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 Etienne 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 laicite'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.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction. Critique in the Twenty-First Century: Political Economy Still, Religion Again
Part I: Saeculum
1. Circumstances and Objectives
2. Secularism and Cosmopolitanism: An Aporia?
3. Double Binds: Politics of the Veil
4. Cosmo-Politics and Conflicts between Universalities
5. Finishing with Religion?
6. Culture, Religion, or Ideology
7. Religious Revolutions and Anthropological Differences
8. Secularism Secularized: The Vanishing Mediator
9. Envoi
Part II: Essays
10. Note on the Origins and Uses of "Monotheism"
11. "God Will Not Remain Silent". Zionism, Messianism, and Nationalism
12. What Future for Laicite?
Part III: Statements
13. Three Words for the Dead and the Living (after Charlie Hebdo)
14. On "Freedom of Expression" and the Question of "Blasphemy"
15. Identitarian Laicite
Notes
Index
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