Nafssiya, or Edward Said’s Affective Phenomenology of Racism
Author : Norman Saadi Nikro
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 37,84 MB
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ISBN : 3031517695
Author : Norman Saadi Nikro
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 37,84 MB
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ISBN : 3031517695
Author : William D. Hart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 37,29 MB
Release : 2000-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521778107
This book provides a distinctive account of Edward Said's critique of modern culture by highlighting the religion-secularism distinction on which it is predicated. It refers to religious and secular traditions and to tropes that extend the meaning and reference of religion and secularism in indeterminate ways. It covers Said's heterogeneous corpus--from Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography, his first book, to Orientalism, his most influential book, to his recent writings on the Palestinian question. The religion-secularism distinction lies behind Said's cultural criticism, and his notion of intellectual responsibility.
Author : A. E. Pilkington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 25,57 MB
Release : 1976-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521209714
This 1976 book outlines the main themes of the philosophy of Henri Bergson and investigates how operative a role he played.
Author : Conor McCarthy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139491407
One of the most famous literary critics of the twentieth century, Edward Said's work has been hugely influential far beyond academia. As a prominent advocate for the Palestinian cause and a noted music critic, Said redefined the role of the public intellectual. In his books, as scholarly as they are readable, he challenged conventional critical demarcations between disciplines. His major opus, Orientalism, is a key text in postcolonial studies that continues to influence as well as challenge scholars in the field. Conor McCarthy introduces the reader to Said's major works and examines how his work and life were intertwined. He explains recurring themes in Said's writings on literature and empire, on intellectuals and literary theory, on music and on the Israel/Palestine conflict. This concise, informative and clearly written introduction for students beginning to study Said is ideally set up to explain the complexities of his work to new audiences.
Author : Graeme Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,69 MB
Release : 2007-11-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0857731378
What does it mean to call Western society 'secular'? What is 'secularism'? And how should we understand the concept of 'secularism' in international relations, particularly the clash between radical Islam and the West? The Latin term from which the word 'secular' is derived - 'saeculum' - means 'generation' or 'age', and came to mean that which belongs to this life, to the here and now, in this world. It is widely used as a shorthand for the ideology which shapes contemporary society without reference to the divine.However, according to Graeme Smith, 'secularism' represents a great deal more. He offers a radical reappraisal of the notion of secularism and its history, beginning with the Greeks and proceeding to modernity and the contemporary period. The assumption that the West is becoming increasingly secular is often unquestioned. By contrast, Dr Smith discerns a different kind of society: one informed by a historical legacy which makes sense only when it is appreciated that it is religious. Secularism was born of Christianity. Daringly - and very originally - Smith argues that it is impossible to understand the idea of the secular without appreciating that, at root, it is Christian. "A Short History of Secularism" will fundamentally reshape discussions of western culture, religion and politics. It will have strong appeal to students of religion, political philosophy, and the history of ideas.
Author : Keith E. Yandell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 30,36 MB
Release : 1994-11-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521477413
Arguing against the notion that religious experience is ineffable, while advocating the view that it can provide evidence of God's existence, this text contends that social science and nonreligious explanations of religious belief and experience do not cancel out the force of the experience.
Author : Jürgen Habermas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 23,41 MB
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0745694608
Two countervailing trends mark the intellectual tenor of our age – the spread of naturalistic worldviews and religious orthodoxies. Advances in biogenetics, brain research, and robotics are clearing the way for the penetration of an objective scientific self-understanding of persons into everyday life. For philosophy, this trend is associated with the challenge of scientific naturalism. At the same time, we are witnessing an unexpected revitalization of religious traditions and the politicization of religious communities across the world. From a philosophical perspective, this revival of religious energies poses the challenge of a fundamentalist critique of the principles underlying the modern Wests postmetaphysical understanding of itself. The tension between naturalism and religion is the central theme of this major new book by Jürgen Habermas. On the one hand he argues for an appropriate naturalistic understanding of cultural evolution that does justice to the normative character of the human mind. On the other hand, he calls for an appropriate interpretation of the secularizing effects of a process of social and cultural rationalization increasingly denounced by the champions of religious orthodoxies as a historical development peculiar to the West. These reflections on the enduring importance of religion and the limits of secularism under conditions of postmetaphysical reason set the scene for an extended treatment the political significance of religious tolerance and for a fresh contribution to current debates on cosmopolitanism and a constitution for international society.
Author : Paul B. Rasor
Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 14,71 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1558966773
Author : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,14 MB
Release : 2008-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 023151154X
Edward W. Said locates Joseph Conrad's fear of personal disintegration in his constant re-narration of the past. Using the author's personal letters as a guide to understanding his fiction, Said draws an important parallel between Conrad's view of his own life and the manner and form of his stories. The critic also argues that the author, who set his fiction in exotic locations like East Asia and Africa, projects political dimensions in his work that mirror a colonialist preoccupation with "civilizing" native peoples. Said then suggests that this dimension should be considered when reading all of Western literature. First published in 1966, Said's critique of the Western self's struggle with modernity signaled the beginnings of his groundbreaking work, Orientalism, and remains a cornerstone of postcolonial studies today.
Author : Lorenzo Zucca
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,63 MB
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 0191644757
How to accommodate diverse religious practices and laws within a secular framework is one of the most pressing and controversial problems facing contemporary European public order. In this provocative contribution to the subject, Lorenzo Zucca argues that traditional models of secularism, focusing on the relationship of state and church, are out-dated and that only by embracing a new picture of what secularism means can Europe move forward in the public reconciliation of its religious diversity. The book develops a new model of secularism suitable for Europe as a whole. The new model of secularism is concerned with the way in which modern secular states deal with the presence of diversity in the society. This new conception of secularism is more suited to the European Union whose overall aim is to promote a stable, peaceful and unified economic and political space starting from a wide range of different national experiences and perspectives. The new conception of secularism is also more suited for the Council of Europe at large, and in particular the European Court of Human Rights which faces growing demands for the recognition of freedom of religion in European states. The new model does not defend secularism as an ideological position, but aims to present secularism as our common constitutional tradition as well as the basis for our common constitutional future.