Powers of the secular modern : Talal Asad and his interlocutors.

Powers of the secular modern : Talal Asad and his interlocutors. edited by David Scott and Charles Hirschkind - Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2006. ©2006. - 1 online resource (370 pages) - Cultural Memory in the Present Ser. . - Cultural Memory in the Present Ser. .

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Intro -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: The Anthropological Skepticism of Talal Asad -- 2 Secularization Revisited: A Reply to Talal Asad -- 3 What Is an "Authorizing Discourse"? -- 4 Fasting for Bin Laden: The Politics of Secularization in Contemporary India -- 5 Europe: A Minor Tradition -- 6 Secularism and the Argument from Nature -- 7 On General and Divine Economy: Talal Asad's Genealogy of the Secular and Emmanuel Levinas's Critique of Capitalism, Colonialism, and Money -- 8 The Tragic Sensibility of Talal Asad -- 9 Redemption, Secularization, and Politics -- 10 Subjects and Agents in the History of Imperialism and Resistance -- 11 Responses -- Appendix: The Trouble of Thinking: An Interview with Talal Asad -- Notes -- Talal Asad: A Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- Cultural Memory in the Present.

This book presents a set of critical engagements by writers from a variety of disciplines with the work of noted anthropologist Talal Asad.

9780804767798


Asad, Talal


Sozialanthropologie

Ethnology -- Philosophy. Ethnology -- Eastern Hemisphere -- Philosophy. Postcolonialism -- Eastern Hemisphere. Secularization -- Eastern Hemisphere.



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