Inhalt: | Islam in the Post-Secular Society: Religion, Secularity and the Antagonism of Recalcitrant Faith critically examines the unique challenges facing Muslims in Europe and North America. From the philosophical perspective of the Frankfurt Schools critical theory, this book attempts not only to diagnose the current problems stemming from a marginalization of Islam in the secular West, but also to offer a proposal for a Habermasian discourse between the religious and the secular. By highlighting historical examples of Islamic and western rapprochement, and rejecting the clash of civilization thesis, the author attempts to find a common language between the religious and the secular, which can serve as a vehicle for a future reconciliation Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Professing Islam in a Post-Secular Society -- Introduction -- On the Contemporary Possibility of Witnessing and Professing -- The Post-Secular Society -- What does it mean to Profess Islam? -- Witnessing In Islam: on the Tradition of Radical Praxis -- New Religion as Return of the Old -- Witnessing in the Time of War -- Perfected Religion: A Problematic Conception -- Fear of Philosophical Blaspheme -- 2. Adversity in Post-Secular Europe -- The Dialectics of Martyrdom: Death as Witnessing and Professing -- Witnessing Against Islam: The Case of Theo van Gogh -- Je ne suis pas Charlie et je ne suis pas avec les terrorists -- 3. Finding a Common Language -- 13th Century Witnessing: Saint Francis of Assisi and Sultan Malik al-Kamil -- Different Francis, Same Mission: Witnessing with and for Muslims -- Translation Proviso: Can We Witness and Confess in the Same Language? -- Cognitive-Instrumental Reason, Moral-Practical Reason and Aesthetic-Expressive Reason in Religion -- Translation Dangers -- Secular Entrenchment -- 4. Witnessing and Confessing in Prophetic and Positive Religions -- Affirmation and Negativity: Marx -- Affirmation and Negativity: Lenin -- Affirmation and Negativity: Horkheimer and Adorno -- Confronting the Post-Secular Condition -- Prophetic and Priestly Religion -- 5. After Auschwitz: Islam in Europe -- Violence and the Post-Secular -- Violence and the State -- Freuds Unbehagen mit Marx -- Witnessing and Professing in a Nietzschian Age of Nihilism -- Witnessing and Professing After Auschwitz: Theodor Adornos Poetics -- History and Metaphysics after Auschwitz -- Ethics after Auschwitz -- Witnessing the Messianic: The Case of the Martyr Walter Benjamin -- A Place for Theology -- Messiah, Messianic and the Historian -- Benjamins Critique of Progress: Witnessing History as Barbarity -- 6. Post-Secularity and its Discontents: The Barbaric Revolt against Barbarism -- Absolutivity -- Authoritarian Absolutes, Heteronomy, and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria -- Humanistic Absolutes -- ISIS: Same Problem, Different Manifestations -- American and Euro-Jihādis -- Hegel, War and Individualism -- ISIS and Western Alienation -- Internationalism -- Seeking Heaven at the Barrel of a Gun -- Material Poverty or Poverty of Being? -- Genealogy of Terror -- Symbolic Message -- Reign of Terror: Bourgeois and Muslim -- The Perverse Dialectic of Apology -- Hypocritical Apologetics and the Recovery of the Prophetic -- 7. The Globalized Post-Secular Society and the Future of Islam -- From the West to the Rest -- Theocracy as a Response to the Globalized Post-Secular Society -- Post-Secular Solidarity: A Proposal for an Intra-religious Constitutionalism -- Ecumenisms and Inter-Religious Constitution Building: Modern Slavery -- Conclusion -- References -- Index |
