Reading in the absolute night: Re-evaluating secularism in illiberal democracies

IF 0.2 0 ASIAN STUDIES
R. Saikumar
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ABSTRACT In this article, I engage with Manav Ratti’s book The Postsecular Imagination: Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature (2013) through three frameworks. First, I consider the book within two historical phases, 1989–2014 and post-2014. I argue that reading Ratti’s book through the latter phase has implications for the problem of enchantment in populism. Second, although postsecularism is the central concept in his book, I draw attention to how Ratti, subtly, provides a capacious and emancipatory conception of secularism itself that is particularly productive for the post-2014 phase we inhabit. Third, I turn to Dalit literature as a site where rationalism is evoked in a way that is not reductive and bureaucratic in the Weberian sense. Might Ambedkar-inspired Dalit texts help us rethink rationality more capaciously?
在绝对的夜晚阅读:重新评估非自由民主国家的世俗主义
在本文中,我通过三个框架来解读马纳夫·拉蒂的著作《后世俗想象:后殖民主义、宗教与文学》(2013)。首先,我把这本书分为两个历史阶段,1989-2014年和2014年后。我认为,从拉蒂的书的后一个阶段来看,对民粹主义的魅力问题有一些启示。其次,尽管后世俗主义是他书中的核心概念,但我提请注意,拉蒂如何巧妙地提供了一个关于世俗主义本身的广阔而解放的概念,这对我们所处的2014年后阶段尤其有益。第三,我把达利特文学作为一个唤起理性主义的地方,而不是韦伯意义上的简化和官僚主义。受安贝德卡启发的达利特文本能否帮助我们更广泛地反思理性?
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