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The Kazanistan Papers: Reading the Muslim Question in the John Rawls Archives.
- Source :
- Perspectives on Politics; Mar2021, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p110-130, 21p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- In The Law of Peoples (1999), John Rawls invented a fictional Muslim state that he called Kazanistan. The genealogy of Kazanistan I offer here is the first examination of Islam in Rawls's papers. It contributes to a critical body of work about the Muslim Question and how Euro-American thinkers construct Islam. In recent years, theorists have turned to Rawls's papers. The archival turn, however, has neglected the last phase of Rawls's career and his book-length attempt at thinking internationally. I address this oversight and critically examine Rawls on Islam and global politics. I historicize Rawls's turn to Islam, Kazanistan's late introduction, and its transformations across drafts. By examining "the Kazanistan papers," I highlight the dissonance between Rawls's philosophical discourse on Islam and the contemporaneous geopolitics recorded in his archives. This disjuncture, I suggest, is characteristic of the logics of liberal deflection from empire and liberal "inflection" into the Muslim Question. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- MUSLIMS
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15375927
- Volume :
- 19
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Perspectives on Politics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 148949192
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S153759272000239X