The Deafness of the State on Sovereignty, Secular Aesthetics and the Untranslatability of the Qur’an
Can the secular State respond to a moral protest? Is it physically and politically capable of hearing moral suasion? Beginning with a heretical reading of Hobbes’ anatomy of the State in the Leviathan, this essay answers these questions by examining the State as a deaf body. As a result of this read...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
2021
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Political theology
Year: 2021, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 155-168 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Koran
/ Secularism
/ State
/ Moral conditions
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BJ Islam NCD Political ethics ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Deafness
B theory of voice B Political Philosophy B Anarchism B Qur'an B anthropology of Islam B Secularism |
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| Summary: | Can the secular State respond to a moral protest? Is it physically and politically capable of hearing moral suasion? Beginning with a heretical reading of Hobbes’ anatomy of the State in the Leviathan, this essay answers these questions by examining the State as a deaf body. As a result of this reading, the essay conceptualizes the limit of the State in terms of vocal gestures by examining the reality of the Qur'an as a vocal writing. It therefore suggests that one might rethink its untranslatability as the untranslatibility, not simply of a language, but of a vocal gesture. Eventually, the essay deploys an analysis of recent movements of protest as vocal acts. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2021.1885829 |