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.

Table des matières

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

A propos de l'auteur

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).

Résumé

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.

Texte suppl.

Asad remains essential reading.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Talal Asad, Talal (Ph.d. Program in Anthropology) Asad, Asad Talal
• Edition: Columbia University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9780231189866
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18986-6
• Pages: 232
• Thèmes: Ruth Benedict Book Series; Ruth Benedict Book; Ruth Benedict Book Series
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Autres; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Autres; PHILOSOPHY / Political, RELIGION / Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, anthropology; religion