Investigates through a critical exploration of Derridas political thought the foundations of modern secular discourse in relation to issues of race and colonialism.Through an indepth critical analysis of Jacques Derridas later writings Beyond the Secular examines the contemporary nexus between religion and politics. Reconnecting these writings to his early works Andrea Cassatella explores distinctive topics that are thematically linked by the theologicalpolitical problematic and theoretically informed by Derridas relational approach to language time religion and politics. The result is a critical investigation into underexamined assumptions of modern secular discourse that questions its binary logics and illuminates such discourses exclusionary character by tracing its roots in racialized understandings about language epistemology politics and religion that travel worldwide through global processes of assimilatory translation.