Is critique secular? [electronic resource] : Blasphemy, injury, and free speech / Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Saba Mahmood ; with a new preface by the authors.

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Asad, Talal [Browse]
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Book
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English
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New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
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1 online resource (xx, 148 pages)

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Four leading thinkers confront the paradoxes and dilemmas attending the supposed stand-off between Islam and liberal democratic values.
Notes
  • Essays first presented at a symposium, "Is Critique Secular?," held in fall 2007 and sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley.
  • Originally published: Berkeley, Calif. : Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California, 2009. (The Townsend papers in the humanities ; no. 2).
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Blasphemy, injury, and free speech
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  • 0823252868 (electronic bk.)
  • 9780823252862 (electronic bk.)
  • 9780823251704 (electronic bk.)
  • 0823251705 (electronic bk.)
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866592832
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