Powers of the secular modern : Talal Asad and his interlocutors
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Powers of the secular modern : Talal Asad and his interlocutors
(Cultural memory in the present)
Stanford University Press, 2006
- : cloth
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-338) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: cloth ISBN 9780804752657
Description
For more than three decades, Talal Asad has been engaged in a distinctive critical exploration of the conceptual assumptions that govern the West's knowledges-especially its disciplinary and disciplining knowledges-of the non-Western world. The essays that make up this volume treat diverse aspects of this remarkable body of work. Among them: the relationship between colonial power and academic knowledge; the historical shifts giving shape to the complexly interrelated categories of the secular and the religious, and the significance of these shifts in the emergence of modern Europe; and aspects of human embodiment, including some of the various ways that pain, emotion, embodied aptitude, and the senses connect with and structure cultural practices. While the specific themes and arguments addressed by the individual contributors range widely, the essays cohere in a shared orientation of both critical engagement and productive extension. Note that this is not a festschrift, nor a celebratory farewell, but a series of engagements with a thinker whose work is in full spate and deserves to be far better known and understood.
Table of Contents
@fmct:Contents @toc2:1 Introduction: The Anthropological Skepticism of Talal Asad @tocca:David Scott and Charles Hirschkind 000 @toc2:2 Secularization Revisited: A Reply to Talal Asad @tocca:Jose Casanova 000 @toc2:3 What is an "Authorizing Discourse"? @tocca:Steven C. Caton 000 @toc2:4 Fasting for Laden: The Politics of Secularization in Contemporary India @tocca:Partha Chatterjee 000 @toc2:5 Europe: A Minor Tradition @tocca:William E. Connolly 000 @toc2:6 Secularism and the Argument from Nature @tocca:Veena Das 000 @toc2:7 On General and Divine Economy: Talal Asad's Genealogy of the Secular and Emmanuel Levinas's Critique of Capitalism, Colonialism, and Money @tocca:Hent de Vries 000 @toc2:8 The Tragic Sensibility of Talal Asad @tocca:David Scott 000 @toc2:9 The Grammar of Redemption @tocca:George Shulman 000 @toc2:10 Subjects and Agents in the history of Imperialism and Resistance @tocca:Jon E. Wilson 000 @toc2:11 Responses @tocca:Talal Asad 000 @toc4:Appendix: The Trouble of Thinking: An Interview with Talal Asad @tocca:David Scott 000 @toc4:Talal Asad: A Bibliography @tocca:Zainab Saleh 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Contributors 000 Index 000
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: pbk ISBN 9780804752664
Description
For more than three decades, Talal Asad has been engaged in a distinctive critical exploration of the conceptual assumptions that govern the West's knowledges-especially its disciplinary and disciplining knowledges-of the non-Western world. The essays that make up this volume treat diverse aspects of this remarkable body of work. Among them: the relationship between colonial power and academic knowledge; the historical shifts giving shape to the complexly interrelated categories of the secular and the religious, and the significance of these shifts in the emergence of modern Europe; and aspects of human embodiment, including some of the various ways that pain, emotion, embodied aptitude, and the senses connect with and structure cultural practices. While the specific themes and arguments addressed by the individual contributors range widely, the essays cohere in a shared orientation of both critical engagement and productive extension. Note that this is not a festschrift, nor a celebratory farewell, but a series of engagements with a thinker whose work is in full spate and deserves to be far better known and understood.
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