Beyond the Secular: Jacques Derrida and the Theological-Political Complex - Couverture souple

Cassatella, Andrea

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1438493886 ISBN 13 : 9781438493886

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2024

Synopsis

Investigates, through a critical exploration of Derrida's political thought, the foundations of modern secular discourse in relation to issues of race and colonialism.

Through an in-depth, critical analysis of Jacques Derrida's later writings, Beyond the Secular examines the contemporary nexus between religion and politics. Reconnecting these writings to his early works, Andrea Cassatella explores distinctive topics that are thematically linked by the theological-political problematic and theoretically informed by Derrida's relational approach to language, time, religion and politics. The result is a critical investigation into under-examined assumptions of modern secular discourse that questions its binary logics and illuminates such discourse's exclusionary character by tracing its roots in racialized understandings about language, epistemology, politics and religion that travel worldwide through global processes of assimilatory translation. By exposing the discriminatory hierarchies that the Western-Christian, sexualized, and racialized presuppositions of secular discourse keep producing and maintaining, Cassatella ultimately sheds light on the deep entanglements of secularism with the legacy of race and colonialism.

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À propos de l'auteur

Andrea Cassatella is Senior Research Fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research at Makerere University in Uganda.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1438493886
• ISBN 13: 9781438493886
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 310
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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