Last November 11, two British Muslims, purportedly members of an organization calling itself “Muslims Against Crusades” (MAC), were arrested under…
Poppies and Prophets
Is critique secular?
Scholars in this series examine the histories, contexts, and assumptions of critique.
Resistance, critique, religion
Justin Neuman's stimulating last post encouraged me to reread the debate asking "Is Critique Secular?"from the beginning, and in doing so I…
Critique and conviction
The heated exchange in this forum between Stathis Gourgouris and Saba Mahmood raises a basic question about conviction through which the relationship between…
The renouncers
What has become clear to me in recent years is that the old dream of progress, which used to be…
Secular brooding, literary brooding
What's so bad about heteronomous thinking, anyway? Stathis Gourgouris has used the term in several posts here on The Immanent…
Secular imperatives?
Calls for the embrace (or for that matter rejection) of secularism are premised on a putative opposition between secular and…
Secularism and critique
What are we to think of the idea, entertained by Rawls for a time, that one can legitimately ask of…
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…
Is critique secular?
One of the most cherished definitions of critique is the incessant subjection of all norms to unyielding critique. Or is…
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…