Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason
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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| 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 SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural B SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture B POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy B Reasoning B Secularization B Religion and culture B Language and languages B PHILOSOPHY ; Political B Secularism |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: Asad, Talal: Secular Translations : Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason. - New York : Columbia University Press,c2018 |
| Summary: | 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 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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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| ISBN: | 0231548591 |