Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason

by Talal Asad

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0231189877

ISBN13:9780231189873

Release Date:December 2018

Publisher:Columbia University Press

Length:232 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.3" x 8.5"

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Philosophy Religion Religion & Spirituality Social Science Social Sciences

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