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Secular Translations - Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason (Hardcover)
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Secular Translations - Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason (Hardcover)
Series: Ruth Benedict Book Series
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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 language of Islam and the language of secular reason, Asad
gives particular importance to the translations of religious ideas
into nonreligious ones. He discusses the claim that liberal
conceptions of equality represent earlier Christian ideas
translated into secularism; explores the ways that the language and
practice of religious ritual play an important but radically
transformed role as they are translated into modern life; and
considers the history of the idea of the self and its centrality to
the project of the secular state. Secularism is not only an
abstract principle that modern liberal democratic states espouse,
he argues, but also a range of sensibilities. The shifting
vocabularies associated with each of these sensibilities are
fundamentally intertwined with different ways of life. In exploring
these entanglements, Asad shows how translation opens the door
for-or requires-the utter transformation of the translated. Drawing
on a diverse set of thinkers ranging from al-Ghazali to Walter
Benjamin, Secular Translations points toward new possibilities for
intercultural communication, seeking a language for our time beyond
the language of the state.
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