Powers of the Secular Modern - Talal Asad and His Interlocutors (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Cultural Memory in the Present
Release date:	2006
First published:	2006
Editors:	David Scott • Charles Hirschkind
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth
Pages:	376
ISBN-13:	978-0-8047-5265-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General
LSN:	0-8047-5265-6
Barcode:	9780804752657

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