{"product_id":"is-critique-secular-blasphemy-injury-and-free-speech-hardcover","title":"Is Critique Secular?: Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTalal Asad\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eWendy Brown\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJudith Butler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume interrogates settled ways of thinking about the seemingly interminable conflict between religious and secular values in our world today. What are the assumptions and resources internal to secular conceptions of critique that help or hinder our understanding of one of the most pressing conflicts of our times?\u003cbr\u003eTaking as their point of departure the question of whether critique belongs exclusively to forms of liberal democracy that define themselves in opposition to religion, these authors consider the case of the \"Danish cartoon controversy\" of 2005. They offer accounts of reading, understanding, and critique for offering a way to rethink conventional oppositions between free speech and religious belief, judgment and violence, reason and prejudice, rationality and embodied life. The book, first published in 2009, has been updated for the present edition with a new Preface by the authors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTalal Asad \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWendy Brown\u003c\/strong\u003e is Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJudith Butler \u003c\/strong\u003eis Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Her most recent book is Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (Columbia, 2012). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSaba Mahmood \u003c\/strong\u003eis Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 09, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53556799701299,"sku":"9780823251681","price":150.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/is-critique-secular-blasphemy-injury-and-free-speech-hardcover","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}