This paper examines the stakes in disentangling critique from its Western operation in order to locate a position of political freedom for the critical study of the Islamic tradition. It considers how the question of the critical study of Islam is a question about the political significance of the concept of critique, and the challenge that the study of the Islamic tradition poses to the discriminating operation of Western criticism. It argues that critique espouses the very philosophical ethos of the Enlightenment itself that challenges us to adopt the “a limit-attitude” of analyzing and reflecting on the limits of the Enlightenment and the political and governmental apparatus that accompanied it.
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Asad Talal Asad T. et al. Free speech, blasphemy, and secular criticism Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury and Free Speech 2009 Berkeley University of California Press 20 63 The Townsend Papers in the Humanities No. 2.
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See Ferris (2006) and Roberts and Turner (2000) for a discussion of the way in which the humanities and its disciplines developed out of Enlightenment modernity.
See Ferris (2011) on the relation of comparison and critique to the formation of the humanities.
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This paper examines the stakes in disentangling critique from its Western operation in order to locate a position of political freedom for the critical study of the Islamic tradition. It considers how the question of the critical study of Islam is a question about the political significance of the concept of critique, and the challenge that the study of the Islamic tradition poses to the discriminating operation of Western criticism. It argues that critique espouses the very philosophical ethos of the Enlightenment itself that challenges us to adopt the “a limit-attitude” of analyzing and reflecting on the limits of the Enlightenment and the political and governmental apparatus that accompanied it.
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