Akeel Bilgrami es un filósofo cuyo trabajo profundiza en las intrincadas conexiones entre la creencia y el significado, el autoconocimiento y la psicología de la identidad. Examina críticamente cómo la religión, en la era moderna, no sirve principalmente como una cuestión de doctrina, sino como una fuente vital de comunidad y valores compartidos, especialmente donde otras formas de solidaridad se ven disminuidas. Los ensayos y artículos de Bilgrami exploran profundas ideas filosóficas junto a apremiantes cuestiones sociales y culturales, ofreciendo una perspectiva única sobre la vida contemporánea y la conexión humana.
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.