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2008, Issue 1 Complete issue Download here the complete issue     content/2008-1/2008-1-00-compleet.pdf
2008, Issue 1 Article De zware plicht van de lichte gemeenschappen Halverwege 2007 deed zich in Nederland een curieuze situatie voor. Ehsan Jami en prinses Máxima brachten het land in rep en roer over zijn identiteit. Was het toeval dat beide onruststokers geen wortels in de polder hadden, of hielp hun afstand tot onze geboortegrond juist om ingesleten vanzelfsprekendheden te bevragen? Het was in ieder geval niet de eerste keer dat de vaderlandse consensus door vreemde eenden in de bijt doorbroken werd. Menno Hurenkamp en Jan Willem Duyvendak Menno Hurenkamp Jan Willem Duyvendak content/2008-1/2008-1-01-hurenkamp.pdf
2008, Issue 1 File: Bader Introduction to Secularism or Democracy? Associational Governance of Religious Diversity Until the 1990s, the view that religious pluralism had caused deep troubles for centuries but has now ceased to create structural problems for political practice and political theory in modern state societies was absolutely predominant in politics, political philosophy and the sociology of religion after the Second World War. Religiously motivated or legitimised wars and civil wars were ‘far behind us’. The principle of religious tolerance is widely recognised, and the institutions and practices of toleration are deeply rooted. Veit Bader Veit Bader content/2008-1/2008-1-02-bader.pdf
2008, Issue 1 File: Bader Een niet-seculiere politieke theorie...? Bestaat dat, een niet-seculiere politieke theorie? Jazeker! Veit Bader heeft zo’n theorie ontworpen. Die theorie heeft hij uiteengezet in een boek dat handelt over de volgens hem hoogst urgente vraag hoe democratische samenlevingen met religies om zouden moeten gaan; in jargon gezegd, hoe van private instituties tot aan de staat toe governance van religieuze diversiteit zou moeten plaatsvinden. Anton van Harskamp Anton van Harskamp content/2008-1/2008-1-03-harskamp.pdf
2008, Issue 1 File: Bader Democratic negotiations of religion and politics In the recent revival of religion in the public sphere of liberal democracies, it has become common to conceive of secularism as a contested concept. Secularism not only refers to principles of strict separation of religion and politics justified by the use of secular or public ethical reasoning; it also implies various concrete institutions and policies regulating the relation-ship between religion and politics reiterating various contextual political traditions and cultures. In other words, the meaning of secularism is ambiguous. Anders Berg-Sørensen Anders Berg-Sørensen content/2008-1/2008-1-04-bergsorensen.pdf
2008, Issue 1 File: Bader Liberal Democracies and the production of religious truth: some comments on Veit Bader’s Secularism or Democracy? Associational Governance of Religious Diversity Secularism or Democracy presents a densely documented and nu-anced argument for the accommodation of religious diversity. The book has a distinct practical import: it offers compelling arguments for the allocation of public funds and political privileges to religious organisations and representatives at a time when state support for religion has been put under some pressure in several Western-European polities. Irena Rosenthal Irena Rosenthal content/2008-1/2008-1-05-rosenthal.pdf
2008, Issue 1 File: Bader Secularism, post-structuralism or beyond? A response to my critics All three critics raise important issues but also show that the complexity of my approach is prone to many misunderstandings. Apart from responding to the critical charges, this piece also serves to explain to the readers why I did things as I did in order to prevent some of these misunderstandings. Veit Bader Veit Bader content/2008-1/2008-1-06-bader.pdf
2008, Issue 1 Debate What is cultural analysis? And what is the role of philosophy? 'What is' questions are suspicious in 'post-metaphysical' times. A question that starts with: 'What is ...?' aims at grasping the essence of what it is aim-ing at, and grasping the essence of something or even of everything is the essence of metaphysics. At least this is what Nietzsche, Heidegger and his French scholars have been telling us for more than a century. Josef Früchtl Josef Früchtl content/2008-1/2008-1-07-fruchtl.pdf
2008, Issue 1 Debate "You do what you have to do". A response to Josef Früchtl If I answer my colleague Josef Früchtl’s paper the way I am about to do, it is first of all to honor his genuine attempt to begin a discussion on what lies at the heart of cultural analysis. I believe the emotions he expresses in his attack are sincere, and I take them seriously. It is also because I believe it is important to position cultural analysis clearly as a practice of engaging objects – that is, to honor the organizers and participants of this workshop in their vision and their work – which lies at the heart of cultural analysis. Mieke Bal Mieke Bal content/2008-1/2008-1-08-bal.pdf
2008, Issue 1 Interview Art is going elsewhere. An interview with Jacques Rancière The reflections of the French philosopher Jacques Rancière shift in between literature, film, pedagogy, historiography, proletarian history and philosophy. He came to prominence when he contributed to Althusser’s Lire le capital (1965) and, shortly after, published a fervent critique of Althusser – La Leçon d’Althusser (1974). He is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at University of Paris VIII (St. Denis) and continues to teach, as a visiting professor, in a number of universities, including Rutgers, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Berkeley. A recurrent motif in Rancière’s work is capturing the relation between politics and aesthetics, and their various meanings in different contexts. Much of his work can be characterized as an attempt to rethink and subvert categories, disciplines and discourses. On October 30 2007, a Dutch combined translation of Le partage du sensible and L’inconscient esthétique was presented in Amsterdam. On this occasion Sudeep Dasgupta interviewed Rancière on sensory experience, the play of art, and politics as a form of disturbance. Sudeep Dasgupta Sudeep Dasgupta content/2008-1/2008-1-09-dasgupta.pdf
2008, Issue 1 Impression Voorbij hier en daar. Shifting politics: transnationalism, power and politics Het Groningse congres Shifting Politics: Transnationalism, power and politics, dat op 7 en 8 maart 2008 werd gehouden, beloofde, alleen al door de naam, veel. Het verschuivende politieke denken op globaal niveau en de daarbij behorende relatie tot macht, maar ook een begrip als transnationalisme heeft altijd veel vragen opgewekt. Hoe moeten we de verschillende onderdelen interpreteren? Verwijst ‘trans’ in transnationalisme naar een denken dat zich boven of voorbij het nationale denken beweegt? Tina Rahimy Tina Rahimy content/2008-1/2008-1-10-rahimy.pdf
2008, Issue 1 Review Op weg naar postreligieuze sociologie. Hoe het integratiedebat de ziel van ‘de samenleving' onder de arm heeft genomen In de meer dan 500 pagina’s van Denken in een tijd van sociale hypochondrie ontvouwt Willem Schinkel een heel eigen theorie over de aard van de sociologie, die hij verbindt met het huidige debat over maatschappelijke integratie. Volgens Schinkel is er in dat debat iets anders aan de hand dan gewoonlijk naar voren wordt gebracht door media, politiek, overheidsadviesorganen als de WRR en RMO, en vooral door de academische sociologie en sociologische onderzoeksbureaus als het SCP. Christian van der Veeke Christian van der Veeke content/2008-1/2008-1-11-vanderveeke.pdf
2008, Issue 1 Review Changing popular culture in relation to urban space In their book Mediapolis: Populaire cultuur en de stad Alex de Jong and Marc Schuilenburg aim at describing changes in our popular culture in relation to urban space. Theoretically based on postmodern philosophers such as Foucault, Deleuze, Zizek and others, their own observations and the detailed description of many other examples, de Jong and Schuilenberg paint a picture of a changing urban culture. Karin Wenz Karin Wenz content/2008-1/2008-1-12-wenz.pdf
2008, Issue 1 Noted Signalementen Besproken: René Descartes, Theo Verbeek, Mieke Aerts, Terry Eagleton, Kwame Anthony Appiah en Erik Oger. Dirk Haen & Jappe Groenendijk Dirk Haen Jappe Groenendijk content/2008-1/2008-1-13-signalementen.pdf