Re-Thinking Secularism Today: Jacques Derrida and the Theologico-Political Predicament
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper articulates Derrida’s view on theologico-political predicament and suggests that his thought offers powerful resources to pursue the study of secularism beyond its traditional modern understandings, many of which rely on a binary logic separating reason from faith. Questioning the Enlightenment emphasis on ‘reason alone’ as way to address the relationship between the theological and the political, Derrida shows how the secular domain cannot be purified from all faith and is best thought as theologico-political, especially if viewed from the event of its foundation. In particular, he emphasizes how such an event is characterized by an experience of faith or credit that is common to positive religion and reason but is irreducible to both. On the one hand, this experience illuminates the limits of attempts seeking to provide robust normative foundations, secular or religious, to communal life; on the other hand, it opens up the space for a view of the secular domain that underscores rather than severs the nexus between the theological and the political and that is more hospitable to cultural and religious difference.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.036 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".