"Ananda Abeysekara contends that democracy, along with its cherished secular norms, is founded on the idea of a promise deferred to the future. Rooted in democracy's messianic promise is the belief that religious - political identity-such as Buddhist, Hindu, Sinhalese, Christian, Muslim, o...

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1. Verfasser:	Abeysekara, Ananda (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York [u.a.] Columbia Univ. Press 2008
Schriftenreihe:	Insurrections
Schlagworte:	Religion Secularism Democracy Demokratie Säkularismus
Online-Zugang:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Zusammenfassung:	"Ananda Abeysekara contends that democracy, along with its cherished secular norms, is founded on the idea of a promise deferred to the future. Rooted in democracy's messianic promise is the belief that religious - political identity-such as Buddhist, Hindu, Sinhalese, Christian, Muslim, or Tamil - can be critiqued, neutralized, improved, and changed, even while remaining inseparable from the genocide of the past. This facile belief, he argues, is precisely what distracts us from challenging the violence inherent in postcolonial political sovereignty. At the same time, we cannot simply dismiss the democratic concept, since it permeates so deeply through our modernist, capitalist, and humanist selves. In The Politics of Postsecular Religion, Abeysekara invites us to reconsider our ethical-political legacies, to look at them not as problems, but as aporias, in the Derridean sense-that is, as contradictions or impasses incapable of resolution. Disciplinary theorizing in religion and politics, he argues, is unable to identify the aporias of our postcolonial modernity. The aporetic legacies, which are like specters that cannot be wished away, demand a new kind of thinking. It is this thinking that Abeysekara calls mourning and un-inheriting. Un-inheriting is a way of meditating on history that both avoids the simple binary of remembering and forgetting and provides an original perspective on heritage, memory, and time." -- Book jacket.
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-310) and index Thinking the un-improvable, thinking the un-inheritable -- Aporias of secularism -- Postcolonial community or democratic responsibility? : a problem of inheritance -- Toward mourning political sovereignty : a politics "between a no-longer and a not-yet" -- Im-passable limits of fugitive politics : identity for and against itself -- Active forgetting of history, the "im-possibility" of justice -- Politics of "postsecular" ethics, futures of anti-genealogy : community without community?
Beschreibung:	XVI, 324 S. 24 cm
ISBN:	9780231142908 9780231512671