ABSTRACT

In this article, I engage with Manav Ratti’s book The Postsecular Imagination: Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature (2013) through three frameworks. First, I consider the book within two historical phases, 1989–2014 and post-2014. I argue that reading Ratti’s book through the latter phase has implications for the problem of enchantment in populism. Second, although postsecularism is the central concept in his book, I draw attention to how Ratti, subtly, provides a capacious and emancipatory conception of secularism itself that is particularly productive for the post-2014 phase we inhabit. Third, I turn to Dalit literature as a site where rationalism is evoked in a way that is not reductive and bureaucratic in the Weberian sense. Might Ambedkar-inspired Dalit texts help us rethink rationality more capaciously?

摘要

在本文中，我阅读了 Manav Ratti 的书《后世俗想象：后殖民主义、宗教和文学》(2013) 通过三个框架。首先，我将本书分为两个历史阶段，1989-2014 年和 2014 年后。我认为，通过后一阶段阅读拉蒂的书对民粹主义的魅力问题具有启示意义。其次，虽然后世俗主义是他书中的核心概念，但我提请注意拉蒂如何巧妙地提供了一个广泛而解放的世俗主义概念，这对我们所处的 2014 年后阶段特别有帮助。第三，我将达利特文学视为一个以非韦伯意义上的还原和官僚主义方式唤起理性主义的场所。受 Ambedkar 启发的达利特文本是否可以帮助我们更广泛地重新思考理性？