Akeel Bilgrami è un filosofo il cui lavoro approfondisce le intricate connessioni tra credenza e significato, autoconsapevolezza e psicologia dell'identità. Esamina criticamente come la religione, nell'era moderna, non serva principalmente come questione di dottrina, ma come fonte vitale di comunità e valori condivisi, specialmente dove altre forme di solidarietà sono diminuite. I saggi e gli articoli di Bilgrami esplorano profonde idee filosofiche accanto a pressanti questioni sociali e culturali, offrendo una prospettiva unica sulla vita contemporanea e sulla connessione umana.
Intends to recover the notion of culture as a collective, hybrid and plural experience, in light of the political imperative that rules us. In bringing together some of the figures most closely associated with Said and his scholarship, this volume looks at Said, the literary critic and public intellectual, Palestine and Said's intellectual legacy.
Argues that self-knowledge of our intentional states is special among all the knowledge we have because it is not an epistemological notion in the standard sense of that term, but instead is a fallout of the radically normative nature of thought and agency.
Celebrated scholars, including Joan Scott, Noam Chomsky, Stanley Fish, Judith Butler, Jon Elster, Akeel Bilgrami, and Jonathan R. Cole, examine contemporary pressures on the free pursuit of knowledge.
Nine major scholars of philosophy, religion, law, ethics, history, anthropology, and politics consider the fate of Western secularism in modern global societies. Extending Charles Taylor's A Secular Age, this anthology explores the transformation of Western secularism beyond Europe, and the collection closes with Taylor's response to each essay.