Is critique secular? : blasphemy, injury, and free speech

Publication Data

• Title Is critique secular? : blasphemy, injury, and free speech
• Contributor Talal Asad
• Publisher Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California
• Publication date 2009
• Publication location Berkeley
• Language English

Contents

Introduction / Wendy Brown
Free speech, blasphemy, and secular criticism / Talal Asad
Religious reason and secular affect : an incommensurable divide? / Saba Mahmood
The sensibility of critique : response to Asad and Mahmood / Judith Butler
Reply to Judith Butler / Talal Asad
Response to Judith Butler / Saba Mahmood.

Topics

• Freedom of speech
• Blasphemy (Islam)
• Islam and secularism

Is critique secular? : blasphemy, injury, and free speech. ISBN 9780982329412. Published by Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.