Asad Secular Translations

Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54859-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Reihe: Ruth Benedict Book Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Asad, Talal

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

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 Autor(innen)

Asad Talal:
Talal Asad is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of many books, most recently On Suicide Bombing (Columbia 2009).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).