[Reader-list] Invitation to a Lecture by Nikolas Kompridis at CSDS

[Praveen Rai]

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

invites you to a lecture





*Secularism and Critique*

by *Nikolas Kompridis*





*Rajeev Bhargava *will Chair

Wednesday, 1 February 2017, 4.30 pm
                                       *RSVP *

CSDS Seminar Room,
                                                                  Tel: 011
23942199

29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054
                                                             Fax: 011
23943450

Please join us for tea at 4
pm
                       email:
jaya at csds.in





In the lively debate over the question, Is Critique Secular?, very
fundamental questions have been raised about critique itself, which go far
beyond the issue of its secularist presuppositions. In this lecture the
speaker argues that overcoming the secularist presuppositions of critique
requires releasing ourselves from a picture of critique that continues to
hold us captive. In his contribution to the ‘Is Critique Secular?’ debate,
Talal Asad exposes some of the limitations and dangers of this picture of
critique, but he nonetheless remains in its grip. Looking closely at Asad¹s
argument, and pointing out its affinities with a number of contemporary
critiques of critique the speaker intends to show how we might release
ourselves from this picture of critique, and practice critique differently,
without secularist (and Western) presuppositions.



*Nikolas Kompridis* is Research Professor in Philosophy and Political
Thought, and the Director of the Institute for Social Justice at the
Australian Catholic University. He is the author of *Critique and
Disclosure: Critical Theory Between Past and Future*, *The Aesthetic Turn
in Political Thought*, and *Philosophical Romanticism*, as well as many
papers on various topics in philosophy and political theory.



*Rajeev Bhargava *is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies.


-- 
Praveen Rai
Academic Secretary
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29, Rajpur Road
Delhi - 110054
Phone: 91-11-23942199
http://www.csds.in/praveen.rai