Name: Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and his Interlocutors (Cultural Memory in the Present)
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Author: Scott, David ; Hirschkind, Charles
ISBN: 9780804752664

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Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and his Interlocutors (Cultural Memory in the Present)

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Physical Book

Illustrated by

David Scott

Charles Hirschkind

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Author

Scott, David ; Hirschkind, Charles

Year

2006

Language

English

Pages

355

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.1 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.50 kg.

ISBN

0804752664

ISBN13

9780804752664

Edition No.

Synopsis "Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and his Interlocutors (Cultural Memory in the Present) "

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.

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