TY - BOOK AU - Scott,David AU - Hirschkind,Charles TI - Powers of the secular modern: Talal Asad and his interlocutors T2 - Cultural Memory in the Present Ser SN - 9780804767798 PY - 2006/// CY - Palo Alto PB - Stanford University Press KW - Asad, Talal KW - Sozialanthropologie KW - Ethnology -- Philosophy KW - Ethnology -- Eastern Hemisphere -- Philosophy KW - Postcolonialism -- Eastern Hemisphere KW - Secularization -- Eastern Hemisphere KW - Electronic books KW - Fernzugriff N1 - E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich; 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 N2 - This book presents a set of critical engagements by writers from a variety of disciplines with the work of noted anthropologist Talal Asad UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/maxweberstiftung-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3037525 ER -