Is Critique Secular?: Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech

by Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler

Book Overview

In this volume, four leading thinkers of our times confront the paradoxes and dilemmas attending the supposed stand-off between Islam and liberal democratic values. Taking the controversial Danish cartoons of Mohammad as a point of departure, Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and Saba Mahmood inquire into the evaluative frameworks at stake in understanding the conflicts between blasphemy and free speech, between religious taboos and freedoms...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823251691
• ISBN13: 9780823251698
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"