Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason - Paperback
by Talal Asad
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Availability:In StockContributor:Talal AsadSeries:Ruth Benedict BookPublish date:2018-12-04Pages:232
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231189873ISBN-10:231189877UPC:9780231189873Book Category:Social Science, Philosophy, ReligionBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Political, PhilosophyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:8.50 x 5.30 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC2JZ9499T
Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason
In Secular Translations, the 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, exploring the circuitous movements of ideas between histories and cultures.
In search of meeting points between the...Series: Ruth Benedict Book
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231189873ISBN-10:231189877UPC:9780231189873Book Category:Social Science, Philosophy, ReligionBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Political, PhilosophyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:8.50 x 5.30 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC2JZ9499T
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).
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