Uncanny or rational, spiritual or empirical, the genesis of thinking cannot be pinned down.
Revelations in method
secularism
Modernity’s residues
How is modernity sticky—prone to leaving a residue? How are secularization theses still affecting us “as gelatinous or glutinous matters…
Secularism’s enchantments and disenchantments: A reply to Goto-Jones and Zhan
Read side by side, these two stunning commentaries on Magic’s Reason—for which I am immensely grateful—both seem to revolve around…
The secularist killjoy: A reply to Schaefer and Smith
I am grateful to Donovan Schaefer and Caleb Smith for their productive, provocative responses. Both in their different ways have…
The art of debunking
If you want to understand secularism, Emily Ogden reminds us in Credulity, then you can begin with the art of…
Credulity, or Science as an intoxication
[Emily] Ogden intends to “accentuate the negative,” so the train of questions I have—questions that view science in a more…
Modernity’s resonances—An introduction
Respondents to the books were asked—and gamely agreed— to reflect on how these works “challenge and correct the discursive and philosophical modes of investigation…
Bolshevism as secular religion? A discussion of The House of Government
In order to expand the discussion of Slezkine’s study, we asked scholars of religion familiar with the Soviet and other…
Translation, tradition, and the ethical turn: A reply to Bardawil and Allan
The Arabic Freud ... does not aim to augment the literature on psychoanalysis by contributing yet another reading of Freud (merely…
The Arabic Freud: Discourse interruptus
The Arabic Freud masterfully excavates the neglected archives of psychoanalysis in mid-twentieth century Egypt, and offers a doubly contrapuntal account…