Is Critique Secular? Author:Asad, Talal Breaking the Two Desires

Breaking the Two Desires

His is the only extensive written record of the rapidly disappearing Bedouin culture

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Is Critique Secular? Author:Asad, Talal Breaking the Two DesiresThis 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? Taking as their point of departure the question of whether critique belongs exclusively to forms of liberal democracy that define