Beyond the Secular

Jacques Derrida and the Theological-Political Complex

Andrea Cassatella

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English

State University of New York Press
02 March 2024

Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism; Social & political philosophy; Philosophy of religion; Religion & politics; Political science & theory

Series: SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Investigates, through a critical exploration of Derrida's political thought, the foundations of modern secular discourse in relation to issues of race and colonialism.

Through an in-depth, critical analysis of Jacques Derrida's later writings, Beyond the Secular examines the contemporary nexus between religion and politics. Reconnecting these writings to his early works, Andrea Cassatella explores distinctive topics that are thematically linked by the theological-political problematic and theoretically informed by Derrida's relational approach to language, time, religion and politics. The result is a critical investigation into under-examined assumptions of modern secular discourse that questions its binary logics and illuminates such discourse's exclusionary character by tracing its roots in racialized understandings about language, epistemology, politics and religion that travel worldwide through global processes of assimilatory translation. By exposing the discriminatory hierarchies that the Western-Christian, sexualized, and racialized presuppositions of secular discourse keep producing and maintaining, Cassatella ultimately sheds light on the deep entanglements of secularism with the legacy of race and colonialism.

By: Andrea Cassatella
Imprint: State University of New York Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9781438493886
ISBN 10: 1438493886
Series: SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Pages: 310
Publication Date: 02 March 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Andrea Cassatella is Senior Research Fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research at Makerere University in Uganda.

Reviews for Beyond the Secular: Jacques Derrida and the Theological-Political Complex

"""While there are a number of studies of Derrida's extensive texts on religion, and several studies of deconstructive politics, I know of no book-length account of the interaction between religion and politics. Given the excellence of Cassatella's understanding of Derrida, and the power of the book's overall argument, Beyond the Secular makes an enormous contribution to the fields of religion, theology, political theory, and philosophy."" — Matthias Fritsch, author of The Promise of Memory: History and Politics in Marx, Benjamin, and Derrida"