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: | Ebook |
| Langue: | English |
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New York : Columbia University Press,
2018
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| Titres liés à la collection: | Ruth Benedict Book Series
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| Sujets: | Secularism Language and languages Reasoning Secularization Religion and culture State, The Electronic books |
| Description matérielle: | 1 Online-Ressource (233 pages) |
| Résumé: | 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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| Description matérielle: | 1 Online-Ressource (233 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780231548595 0231548591 |