Europe's encounter with Islam : the secular and the postsecular / Luca Mavelli
- Author:
- Mavelli, Luca
- Published:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 172 pages ; 24 cm.
- Series:
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Theorizing the secular: modernity and the separation of reason and faith -- Introduction -- Contending conceptions of the secular: the Asad---Casanova debate -- Religion within the boundaries of the secular: Casanova's `modern public religions' and Kant's `rational faith' -- The exclusionary character of the secular notion of faith: Asad's critique of Kant's `rational religion' -- The constitution of the subject in the secular episteme: Foucault's critique of modern subjectivity and the `analytic of finitude' -- Conclusion -- 2.From autonomy to isolation: a genealogy of European secularity -- Introduction -- Aquinas' ladders of individuation -- Descartes' withdrawal in the cogito -- Kant's faith in the transcendental subject -- Durkheim's society of individuals -- Weber's iron cage of secular subjectivity -- Conclusion -- 3.The withdrawal from the Muslim other -- Introduction -- The secular political theology of the headscarf -- The appropriation of secularism -- The redemption of the Muslim other -- The paradigm of immunization -- Conclusion -- 4.Islam and the European search for co-immunity -- Introduction -- Beyond the paradigm of immunization (I): Habermas' intersubjective proceduralism -- Procedural Europe -- Political church -- Conclusion -- 5.Imagining the postsecular -- Introduction -- Beyond the paradigm of immunization (II): Connolly's postsecular philosophy of becoming -- Habermas' postsecular turn -- Beyond the paradigm of immunization (III): Buber's philosophy of life as encounter -- Conclusion.
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- ISBN:
- 9780415693288
0415693284
9780415693295
0415693292
9780203125120
0203125126 - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [156]-167) and index.
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