Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
PHILOSOPHY & SOCIAL CRITICISM, cilt.43, sa.4-5, ss.495-502, 2017 (AHCI)
The challenges facing the life-worlds of political societies in the Islamic world require a radical shift of perspective that can improve our understanding of the contemporary situation of human rights politics. Not only the classical formulation of secularism, which aims at liberating the public sphere from domination of the sacred', but also the political-theological approach, which addresses the problems of modernity within the context of a disguised and refurbished dominance of the transcendence', suffer from and share a basic insufficiency in handling human rights issues. According to these approaches, the basic issue stems from a realignment in relations between logics of the sovereign and the sacred or a redefinition of the position of state against religion. In this article, my object is shifting the scope of discussion concerning the rights beyond this logic of sovereignty by adopting an approach which provides a political ground for discussing the intermingling of religion in the life-world. From my point of view, the first step that should be taken to deepen our understanding of the argument of freedom is to unveil the nature of the sacred within the framework of a power network that longs for control over the whole lives of individuals constituting the society. In this regard, by going beyond the concepts such as fanaticism, fundamentalism or terrorism provided by state mentality', the significance of lifestyle politics for rights talk' will become more evident. From this point of view, the detection and critique of a zone of weak citizenship' constructed through restrictions stemming from the values and norms arising from the perceptions of particular communities organized through family, tradition and justice are essential. Such a critique will pave the way for a radical politicization of lifestyles by way of criteria of the demands for equal respect and dignity.