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

"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 divers...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Scott, David, 1958-, Hirschkind, Charles
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.
Colección:Cultural memory in the present.
Temas:
Asad, Talal > Criticism and interpretation.
Asad, Talal > Critique et interprétation.
Asad, Talal
Asad, Talal.
Ethnology > Philosophy.
Ethnology > Eastern Hemisphere > Philosophy.
Postcolonialism > Eastern Hemisphere.
Secularization > Eastern Hemisphere.
Ethnologie > Philosophie.
Ethnologie > Hémisphère oriental > Philosophie.
Postcolonialisme > Hémisphère oriental.
Sécularisation > Hémisphère oriental.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Ethnology > Philosophy
Postcolonialism
Secularization
Sozialanthropologie
Culturele antropologie.
Concepten.
Eastern Hemisphere
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Bin 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
  • Redemption, secularization, and politics / George Shulman
  • Subjects and agents in the history of imperialism and resistance / Jon E. Wilson
  • Responses / Talal Asad.

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