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  • Beyond the Untranslatable

    Theorizing Postcolonial Translation

    Series series Creative, Social and Transnational Perspectives on Translation
    This collection examines postcolonial studies through the lens of translation studies, focusing on Asian and East Asian experiences. It redefines translation as a process of negotiating Otherness with language at its core.Following Talal Asad and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s critique, the book shifts from subjectivity to subjectivation, arguing that subjects exist in reciprocal relationships with ... Leer más

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  • Formations of the Secular

    Christianity, Islam, Modernity

    de Talal Asad ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Opening with the provocative query “what might an anthropology of the secular look like?” this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes in the modern West and the Middle East.Talal Asad proceeds to dismantle commonly held assumptions about the secular and the ... Leer más

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  • Secular Translations

    Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason

    de Talal Asad ...
    Series series Ruth Benedict Book Series
    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 ... Leer más

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  • Secular Translations

    Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason

    de Talal Asad ...
    Series series Ruth Benedict Book Series
    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 ... Leer más

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  • From the Margins

    Historical Anthropology and Its Futures

    Historical anthropology: critical exchange between two decidedly distinct disciplines or innovative mode of knowledge production? As this volume’s title suggests, the essays Brian Keith Axel has gathered in From the Margins seek to challenge the limits of discrete disciplinary epistemologies and conventions, gesturing instead toward a transdisciplinary understanding of the emerging relations ... Leer más

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  • On Suicide Bombing

    de Talal Asad ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    Like many people in America and around the world, Talal Asad experienced the events of September 11, 2001, largely through the media and the emotional response of others. For many non-Muslims, "the suicide bomber" quickly became the icon of "an Islamic culture of death"-a conceptual leap that struck Asad as problematic. Is there a "religiously-motivated terrorism?" If so, how does it differ from ... Leer más

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  • Genealogies of Religion

    Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam

    de Talal Asad ...
    In Geneologies of Religion, Talal Asad explores how religion as a historical category emerged in the West and has come to be applied as a universal concept.The idea that religion has undergone a radical change since the Christian Reformation—from totalitarian and socially repressive to private and relatively benign—is a familiar part of the story of secularization. It is often invokved to explain ... Leer más

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  • Is Critique Secular?

    Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech

    This volume interrogates settled ways of thinking about the seemingly interminable conflict between religious and secular values in our world today. What are the assumptions and resources internal to secular conceptions of critique that help or hinder our understanding of one of the most pressing conflicts of our times?Taking as their point of departure the question of whether critique belongs ... Leer más

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    Genealogies of Religion

    Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam

    de Talal Asad ...
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    In Geneologies of Religion, Talal Asad explores how religion as a historical category emerged in the West and has come to be applied as a universal concept.The idea that religion has undergone a radical change since the Christian Reformation—from totalitarian and socially repressive to private and relatively benign—is a familiar part of the story of secularization. It is often invoked to explain ... Leer más

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