Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment

In a rigorous exploration of how secularism and identity emerged as conflicting concepts in the modern world, Akeel Bilgrami elaborates a notion of secular enchantment with a view to finding in secular modernity a locus of meaning and value, while addressing squarely the anxiety that all such notions are exercises in nostalgia.

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Akeel Bilgrami

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• Authors: Akeel Bilgrami
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.04.2014
• EAN: 9780674052048
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05204-8
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Convergences: Inventories of the Present; Convergences: Inventories of the Present; Convergences: Inventories of t
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous