Critical secularism: A reintroduction for perilous times

Boundary 2

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1-9

  Mufti, Aamir R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 57149125370     PISSN: 01903659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/01903659-31-2-1     Document Type: Review

References (11)

1. I have argued this point at some length in Aamir R. Mufti, "Auerbach in Istanbul: Edward Said, Secular Criticism, and the Question of Minority Culture," Critical Inquiry 25 (Autumn 1998): 95-125.
2. See Bruce Robbins, "Secularism, Elitism, Progress, and Other Transgressions: On Edward Said's 'Voyage In,'" Social Text, no. 40 (Fall 1994): 25-38;
3. Mufti, "Auerbach in Istanbul"; and the contributions to this issue by Stathis Gourgouris and Emily Apter.
4. See, for instance, Edward W. Said, The World, the Text, and the Critic (London: Faber and Faber, 1984), 230-34;
5. Culture and Imperialism (New York: Knopf, 1993), 270-72.
6. Edward W. Said, Orientalism (New York: Vintage Books, 1979), 120-21.
7. Said, Orientalism, 45.
8. Said, Culture and Imperialism, 206.
9. For a significant rethinking of the historical meanings of binationalism in Palestine, see Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, "Binationalism and Jewish Identity: Hannah Arendt and the Question of Palestine," in Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem, ed. Steven E. Ascheim (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), 165-80.
10. See Erich Auerbach, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, Fiftieth-Anniversary ed., trans. Willard R. Trask, with a new introduction by Edward W. Said (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003). The essay is republished here with the permission of the estate of Edward W. Said. I am deeply grateful in particular to Mariam Said. My thanks also to my assistant, Indra Mukhopadhyay, for his able help with the manuscript.
11. Theodor W. Adorno, Negative Dialectics, trans. E. B. Ashton (New York: Continuum, 1987), 3.