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Author(s): Luca Mavelli
ISBN(s): 9780415693295, 0415693292
Edition: 1
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Year: 2012
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0415693292 
ISBN 13: 9780415693295
Author: Luca Mavelli

In the last few years, the Muslim presence in Europe has been increasingly perceived as ‘problematic’. Events such as the French ban on headscarves in public schools, the publication of the so-called ‘Danish cartoons’, and the speech of Pope Benedict XVI at the University of Regensburg have hit the front pages of newspapers the world over, and prompted a number of scholarly debates on Muslims’ capacity to comply with the seemingly neutral and pluralistic rules of European secularity. Luca Mavelli argues that this perspective has prevented an in-depth reflection on the limits of Europe’s secular tradition and its role in Europe’s conflictual encounter with Islam. Through an original reading of Michel Foucault’s spiritual notion of knowledge and an engagement with key thinkers, from Thomas Aquinas to Jurgën Habermas, Mavelli articulates a contending genealogy of European secularity. While not denying the latter’s achievements in terms of pluralism and autonomy, he suggests that Europe’s secular tradition has also contributed to forms of isolation, which translate into Europe’s incapacity to perceive its encounter with Islam as an opportunity rather than a threat. Drawing on this theoretical perspective, Mavelli offers a contending account of some of the most important recent controversies surrounding Islam in Europe and investigates the ‘postsecular’ as a normative model to engage with the tensions at the heart of European secularity. Finally, he advances the possibility of a Europe willing to reconsider its established secular narratives which may identify in the encounter with Islam an opportunity to flourish and cultivate its democratic qualities and postnational commitments. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of religion and international relations, social and political theory, and Islam in Europe.

Europe s Encounter with Islam The Secular and the Postsecular 1st Table of contents:

1 Theorizing the secular Modernity and the separation of reason and faith
Introduction
Contending conceptions of the secular: the Asad–Casanova debate
Religion within the boundaries of the secular: Casanova’s ‘modern public religions’ and Kant’s ‘rational faith’
The exclusionary character of the secular notion of faith: Asad’s critique of Kant’s ‘rational religion’
The constitution of the subject in the secular episteme: Foucault’s critique of modern subjectivity and the ‘analytic of finitude’
Conclusion
2 From autonomy to isolation A genealogy of European secularity
Introduction
Aquinas’ ladders of individuation
Individuation
Transcendence of the senses
Descartes’ withdrawal in the cogito
Kant’s faith in the transcendental subject
Durkheim’s society of individuals
Weber’s iron cage of secular subjectivity
Conclusion
3 The withdrawal from the Muslim other
Introduction
The secular political theology of the headscarf
The appropriation of secularism
The redemption of the Muslim other
The paradigm of immunization
Conclusion
4 Islam and the European search for co-immunity
Introduction
Beyond the paradigm of immunization (I): Habermas’ intersubjective proceduralism
A way out of the philosophy of consciousness
The immunitary limits of Habermas’ approach
Constitutional patriotism and the conceits of European subjectivity
Procedural Europe
Political church
Conclusion
5 Imagining the postsecular
Introduction
Beyond the paradigm of immunization (II): Connolly’s postsecular philosophy of becoming
The tensions of the analytic of finitude
Connolly’s response to the analytic of finitude
Beyond the secular episteme
Habermas’ postsecular turn
Beyond the paradigm of immunization (III): Buber’s philosophy of life as encounter
Conclusion
6 Conclusion
7 A personal note
References

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