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
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Columbia University Press
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Series/Journal: | Ruth Benedict Book Series
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| Further subjects: | B
State, The
B Reasoning B Secularization B Religion and culture B Language and languages B Electronic books B Secularism |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Print version: Asad, Talal: Secular Translations : Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason. - New York : Columbia University Press,c2018 |
| Summary: | 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 Intro -- Table of Contents -- 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 |
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| ISBN: | 0231548591 |