04723nam 2200865Ia 450 991079203980332120200520144314.00-8232-5486-00-8232-6121-20-8232-5488-70-8232-5487-910.1515/9780823254873(CKB)2560000000101491(EBL)3239812(SSID)ssj0000871782(PQKBManifestationID)11453991(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000871782(PQKBWorkID)10823740(PQKB)10878454(StDuBDS)EDZ0000292604(MiAaPQ)EBC3239812(OCoLC)847002939(MdBmJHUP)muse27525(DE-B1597)555312(DE-B1597)9780823254873(MiAaPQ)EBC1344834(Au-PeEL)EBL3239812(CaPaEBR)ebr10689925(CaONFJC)MIL509414(OCoLC)856869071(Au-PeEL)EBL1344834(EXLCZ)99256000000010149120130401d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLessons in secular criticism[electronic resource] /Stathis Gourgouris1st ed.New York Fordham University Press20131 online resource (216 p.)Thinking Out LoudIncludes index.0-8232-5379-1 0-8232-5378-3 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Poiein of Secular Criticism -- 2. Detranscendentalizing the Secular -- 3. Why I Am Not a Post-secularist -- 4. Confronting Heteronomy -- 5. The Void Occupied Unconcealed -- 6. Responding to the Deregulation of the Political -- Index Secular criticism is a term invented by Edward Said to denote not a theory but a practice that counters the tendency of much modern thinking to reach for a transcendentalist comfort zone, the very space philosophy wrested away from religion in the name of modernity. Using this notion as a compass, this book reconfigures recent secularism debates on an entirely different basis, by showing (1) how the secular imagination is closely linked to society’s radical poiesis, its capacity to imagine and create unprecedented forms of worldly existence; and (2) how the space of the secular animates the desire for a radical democratic politics that overturns inherited modes of subjugation, whether religious or secularist.Gourgouris’s point is to disrupt the co-dependent relation between the religious and the secular—hence, his rejection of fashionable languages of postsecularism—in order to engage in a double critique of heteronomous politics of all kinds. For him, secular criticism is a form of political being: critical, antifoundational, disobedient, anarchic, yet not negative for negation’s sake but creative of new forms of collective reflection, interrogation, and action that alter not only the current terrain of dominant politics but also the very self-conceptualization of what it means to be human.Written in a free and combative style and given both to close readings of texts and to gazing off into the broad horizon, these essays cover a range of issues—historical and philosophical, archaic and contemporary, literary and political—that ultimately converge in the significance of contemporary radical politics: the assembly movements we have seen in various parts of the world in recent years. The secular imagination demands a radical pedagogy and unlearning a great many established thought patterns. Its most important dimension is not battling religion per se but dismantling theological politics of sovereignty in favor of radical conditions for social autonomy.Thinking out loud.LiteraturePhilosophySecularism in literatureCriticismReligion and literatureSovereignty.autonomy.critique.democracy.poetics.political theology.radical politics.secularism.LiteraturePhilosophy.Secularism in literature.Criticism.Religion and literature.809/.93382REL000000PHI019000LIT000000bisacshGourgouris Stathis1958-1187640MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792039803321Lessons in secular criticism3809286UNINA