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Book SynopsisContends that democracy - along with its secular norms - is founded on the idea of a promise deferred to the future. This title presents examples of religion in public life and calls into question the projects of refashioning the aporetic premises of liberalism and secularism.
Trade ReviewEssential. Choice Thought-provoking... a refreshing postcolonial standpoint that places European history and thought in a contemporary global context. -- Charles Whitney Clio
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Thinking the Un-improvable, Thinking the Un-inheritable 2. Aporias of Secularism 3. Postcolonial Community or Democratic Responsibility? A Problem of Inheritance 4. Toward Mourning Political Sovereignty: A Politics "Between a No-Longer and a Not-Yet"? 5. Im-passable Limits of Fugitive Politics: Identity for and Against Itself 6. Active Forgetting of History, the "Im-possibility" of Justice 7. Politics of "Postsecular" Ethics, Futures of Anti-genealogy: Community Without Community? Notes Index
