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Secularism and Cosmopolitanism - Critical Hypotheses on Religion and Politics (Paperback)
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Secularism and Cosmopolitanism - Critical Hypotheses on Religion and Politics (Paperback)
Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
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What is the relationship between cosmopolitanism and secularism-the
worldwide and the worldly? While cosmopolitan politics may seem
inherently secular, existing forms of secularism risk undermining
the universality of cosmopolitanism because they privilege the
European tradition over all others and transform particular
historical norms into enunciations of truth, valid for all cultures
and all epochs. In this book, the noted philosopher Etienne Balibar
explores the tensions lurking at this troubled nexus in order to
advance a truly democratic and emancipatory cosmopolitanism, which
requires a secularization of secularism itself. Balibar argues for
the idea of the universal against its particular dominant
institutions. He questions the assumptions that underlie popular
ideas of secularism and religion and outlines the importance of a
new critique for the contemporary world. Balibar holds that
conflicts between religious and secular discourses need to be
reframed from a point of view that takes into account the cultural
hybridization, migration and mobility, and transformation of
borders that have reshaped the postcolonial age. Among the topics
discussed are the uses and misuses of the category of religion and
the religious, the paradoxical genealogy of monotheism, French
laicite's identitarian turn, and the implications of the responses
to the Charlie Hebdo attacks for an extended definition of free
speech. Going beyond circumscribed notions of religion and the
public sphere, Secularism and Cosmopolitanism is a profound
rethinking of identity and difference that seeks to make room for a
renewed political imagination.
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