Rise of Fundamentalist Discourse and the Reassertion of Modern Ethos

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Rise of Fundamentalist Discourse and the Reassertion of Modern Ethos

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Author(s): Abdul Wahab Suri

Publication date (Print): 2015

Journal: Policy Perspectives: The Journal of the Institute of Policy Studies

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The religious resurgence in the contemporary world has generally been described as a threat to global peace in general and to the axiological centrality of humanist values i.e. autonomy and self-determination, in particular. This threat presumes an oversimplified version of fundamentalism which is not only predominantly modernistic but also views religious reservations against modern life-world in abstraction to postmodern critique on the colonization of modern discursive practices. Islamic discourse determines the limit of modernity in the non-Western, post-colonial world; on the other hand, it provides substantive theoretical resistance to anti-foundationalist, contingent and relativistic postmodernism prevailing in Eurocentric cultures. In this way, Islamic discourse naturally performs two functions simultaneously which has the potential to be instrumentalised for the sustenance of modern institutional order.

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Title: Policy Perspectives: The Journal of the Institute of Policy Studies

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Publication date (Print): 2015

Volume: 12

Issue: 2

Pages: 105-130

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Dr. Abdul Wahab Suri is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Karachi.

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[3] Bradley, Klein. Strategic Discourse and its Alternatives . New York: Center on Violence and Human Survival, 1987.

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[5] Foucault, Michel. “What is Enlightenment?’” In The Foucault Reader by Paul Rabinow (ed.), New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.

[6] Foucault, Michel. Remarks on Marks . Translated by R. James Goldstein and James Cascatio. New York: Semio Text (e)., 1991.

[7] George, Jim. Discourse of Global Politics: A Critical (re) introduction of International Relations . Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1994.

[8] Gray, John. Enlightenment Wake: Politics and Culture at the Close of Modern Age . London: New York Routledge, 1995.

[9] Habermas, Jürgen. Reason and the Rationalization of Society and Lifeworld and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason . Translated by Thomas McCarthy. Boston: Beacon Press, 1984 and 1987.

[10] Habermas, Jürgen. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity . Translated by F. Lawrence. Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, 1987.

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[28] Weber, Max. Economy and Society . California: University of California, 1978.