Secular Translations - Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason

In Secular Translations, anthropologist Talal Asad reflects on his lifelong engagement with secularism and its contradictions. He draws out the ambiguities in our concepts of the religious and the secular through a rich consideration of translatability and untranslatability.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Secular Equality and Religious Language
2. Translation and the Sensible Body
3. Masks, Security, and the Language of Numbers
Epilogue
Notes
Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Talal Asad is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His many books include Formations of the Secular (2003) and On Suicide Bombing (Columbia, 2007).

Zusammenfassung

In Secular Translations, anthropologist Talal Asad reflects on his lifelong engagement with secularism and its contradictions. He draws out the ambiguities in our concepts of the religious and the secular through a rich consideration of translatability and untranslatability.

Zusatztext

Asad remains essential reading.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Talal Asad, Talal (Ph.d. Program in Anthropology) Asad, Asad Talal
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9780231189866
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18986-6
• Seiten: 232
• Serien: Ruth Benedict Book Series; Ruth Benedict Book; Ruth Benedict Book Series
• Themen: Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Sonstiges; PHILOSOPHY / Political, RELIGION / Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, anthropology; religion