A consequence of hinging our conversation on belief is that it tends to project “belief” in the abstract onto some…
Is critique secular?
Is critique secular?
Scholars in this series examine the histories, contexts, and assumptions of critique.
Closure at critique?
Is critique secular? This is the question posed by Chris Nealon on this blog, and by the panel at Berkeley…
What if?
It seems to me that Chris Nealon and Colin Jager are onto something important when they remind us that there…
Historical notes on the idea of secular criticism
In an essay entitled “Secular Criticism,” the noted literary critic Edward Said wrote that “Criticism...is always situated, it is skeptical,…
De-transcendentalizing the secular
How one answers the question “Is critique secular?” determines substantially how one engages with secularism, how one comes to defend…
Equal opportunity criticism (affirmative faction)
Heidegger did not need to point out (but he did) that God occupies a hegemonic place as the figure of…
Is critique secular?
One of the most cherished definitions of critique is the incessant subjection of all norms to unyielding critique. Or is…
Anti-secularist failures
I guess it's to be expected that in today's fashionable anti-secularist perspective an act of secular criticism that calls for…
Secularism and critique
What are we to think of the idea, entertained by Rawls for a time, that one can legitimately ask of…
Secular imperatives?
Calls for the embrace (or for that matter rejection) of secularism are premised on a putative opposition between secular and…