Secular Translations : : Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason / / Talal Asad.
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 circui...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ruth Benedict Book Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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