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Powers of the secular modern :

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0804752656 (cloth : alk. paper)

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0804752664 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Powers of the secular modern :

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[Book]

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Talal Asad and his interlocutors /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by David Scott and Charles Hirschkind

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Stanford, Calif. :

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Stanford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2006

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x, 355 p. ;

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24 cm

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Cultural memory in the present

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-338) and index

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Introduction: The anthropological skepticism of Talal Asad / David Scott and Charles Hirschkind -- Secularization revisited : a reply to Talal Asad / José Casanova -- What is an "authorizing discourse"? / Steven C. Caton -- Fasting for Laden : the politics of secularization in contemporary India / Partha Chatterjee -- Europe : a minor tradition / William E. Connolly -- Secularism and the argument from nature / Veena Das -- On general and divine economy : Talal Asad's genealogy of the secular and Emmanuel Levinas's critique of capitalism, colonialism, and money / Hent de Vries -- The tragic sensibility of Talal Asad / David Scott -- The grammar of redemption / George Shulman -- Subjects and agents in the history of imperialism and resistance / Jon E. Wilson -- Responses / Talal Asad

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"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."

Asad, Talal-- Criticism and interpretation

Ethnology-- Eastern Hemisphere-- Philosophy

Ethnology-- Philosphy

Postcolonialism-- Eastern Hemisphere

Secularization-- Eastern Hemisphere

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Hirschkind, Charles

Scott, David,1958-

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20060202112512.0

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[Book]

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