Is critique secular?
Subtitle: blasphemy, injury, and free speech
By: Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Saba Mahmood ; with a new preface by the authors
Contributors: Brown, Wendy, 1955- author; Butler, Judith, 1956- author; Mahmood, Saba, 1962-2018 author
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780823251698
Subjects: Blasphemy; Islam and secularism; Islam; Freedom of speech; Blasphemy (Islam)
Other titles: Blasphemy, injury, and free speech
Description: This volume interrogates settled ways of thinking about the seemingly interminable conflict between religious and secular values in our world today. What are the assumptions and resources internal to secular conceptions of critique that help or hinder our understanding of one of the most pressing conflicts of our times? Taking as their point of departure the question of whether critique belongs exclusively to forms of liberal democracy that define themselves in opposition to religion, these authors consider the case of the “Danish cartoon controversy” of 2005. They offer accounts of reading, understanding, and critique for offering a way to rethink conventional oppositions between free speech and religious belief, judgment and violence, reason and prejudice, rationality and embodied life. The book, first published in 2009, has been updated for the present edition with a new Preface by the authors. --
Notes: Previous edition: 2009

Essays first presented at a symposium, "Is Critique Secular?," held in fall 2007 and sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley.

Includes bibliographical references.

Originally published: Berkeley, California : Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California, 2009. (The Townsend papers in the humanities ; no. 2).
Table of contents: title: Preface, 2013 / -- Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Saba Mahmood -- Introduction / -- Wendy Brown; title: Free speech, blasphemy, and secular criticism  -- Talal Asad; title: Religious reason and secular affect : an incommensurable divide?  -- Saba Mahmood; title: The sensibility of critique : response to Asad and Mahmood  -- Judith Butler; title: Reply to Judith Butler  -- Talal Asad; title: Reply to Judith Butler -- Saba Mahmood.