Secularity can be lived precariously rather than merely discovered.

Evidence

In his study of German baroque drama known as Trauerspiel, Walter Benjamin describes a different trajectory, one that directs the reader to a secular world that is not merely discovered (through clear-sighted knowledge of the real) but precariously assembled and lived in contradictory fashion. Although de Man also displays a sense of the precariousness of secular life in his writings, he retains a commitment to the secular as “the real” that Benjamin doesn’t have. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 313