"Edward Said's Rhetoric of the Secular" provides an important new
reading of Edward W. Said's work, emphasizing not only the
distinction but also the fuzzy borders between representations of
'the religious' and 'the secular' found within and throughout his
oeuvre and at the core of some of his most customary rhetorical
strategies.
Mathieu Courville begins by examining Said's own reflections on
his life, before moving on to key debates about Said's work within
Religious Studies and Middle Eastern Studies, and his relationship
to French critical theorists.
Through close attention to Said's use of the literal and the
figurative when dealing with religious, national and cultural
matters, Courville discerns a pattern that illuminates what Said
means by secular. Said's work shows that the secular is not the
utter opposite of religion in the modern globalized world, but may
exist in a productive tension with it.
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