Abstract

In Culture and Redemption (2007), Tracy Fessenden argues that the development of postsecular critique requires a more thorough reckoning with the secular assumptions that so durably structure the categories and grammars of critical thought. As Peter Coviello and Jared Hickman have since elaborated, such a reckoning entails the radical reinvention of postsecularism’s critical style. But what might these more pointedly situated and styled voices of postsecular critique sound like? Recent books of Americanist criticism by Coviello, Lindsay V. Reckson, and Phillip Maciak suggest new possibilities by coupling alternate cultural histories of the nineteenth century with instructive experiments in critical style. Each of these studies begins with a similar conviction: that stepping outside the immanent frame of secularism is impossible. Yet Coviello, Reckson, and Maciak all work to locate and create meaningful cracks in this frame. By flagging the hegemonic secular presumptions inherent to their own critical authority, by thinking, feeling, and writing from an unusually intimate proximity to their subjects, these three critics model how others might similarly evolve and enliven the postsecular approach.

中文翻译：

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世俗风格

摘要

在文化与救赎中（2007年），特雷西·费森登（Tracy Fessenden）认为，世俗批评的发展需要对世俗的假设进行更彻底的考虑，世俗的假设如此持久地构成了批判性思维的类别和语法。正如彼得·科维耶洛（Peter Coviello）和贾里德·希克曼（Jared Hickman）之后所阐述的那样，这种推论需要对世俗主义的批判风格进行彻底的改造。但是，这些世俗的批评之后，这些更具针对性和风格的声音听起来会是怎样的呢？Coviello，Lindsay V. Reckson和Phillip Maciak撰写的有关美国主义批评的最新著作提出了新的可能性，将19世纪的其他文化历史与批判性的指导性实验相结合。这些研究中的每一个都以类似的信念开始：走出世俗主义内在框架是不可能的。然而，科维耶洛，瑞克森，Maciak和Maciak都在此框架中寻找并创建有意义的裂缝。通过批判自己的批判权威固有的霸权世俗推定，通过思考，感觉和写作与被试之间的亲密接触，这三位批评家为他人如何类似地发展和充实了世俗的方法打下了基础。