{"product_id":"powers-of-the-secular-modern-9780804752657","title":"Powers of the Secular Modern","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more than three decades, Talal Asad has been engaged in a distinctive critical exploration of the conceptual assumptions that govern the West's knowledgesespecially its disciplinary and disciplining knowledgesof 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 celebr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The nine essays in this powerful book offer students and mentors alike a window into a theoretical and practical arena that is all too regularly ignored today by pundits and exploitative \"studies\" on Islam and religion in general.\"—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Islamic Social Sciences\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"While centrally about secularization, this volume is much more than that. Asad's work and the essays engaging him here offer nothing short of an anthropology of the modern. Many issues are broached, leaving the reader with a dazzling array of issues to explore. This is interdisciplinary engagement at its best. An invaluable text for scholars and students working across the social sciences.\"—Victoria Hattam, New School for Social Research\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e@fmct:Contents  @toc2:1\tIntroduction: The Anthropological Skepticism of Talal Asad  @tocca:David Scott and Charles Hirschkind\t000  @toc2:2\tSecularization Revisited: A Reply to Talal Asad  @tocca:Jose Casanova\t000  @toc2:3\tWhat is an \"Authorizing Discourse\"?  @tocca:Steven C. Caton\t000  @toc2:4\tFasting for Laden: The Politics of Secularization in Contemporary India  @tocca:Partha Chatterjee\t000  @toc2:5\tEurope: A Minor Tradition  @tocca:William E. Connolly\t000  @toc2:6\tSecularism and the Argument from Nature  @tocca:Veena Das\t000  @toc2:7\tOn General and Divine Economy: Talal Asad's Genealogy of the Secular and Emmanuel Levinas's Critique of Capitalism, Colonialism, and Money  @tocca:Hent de Vries\t000  @toc2:8\tThe Tragic Sensibility of Talal Asad  @tocca:David Scott\t000  @toc2:9\tThe Grammar of Redemption  @tocca:George Shulman\t000  @toc2:10\tSubjects and Agents in the history of Imperialism and Resistance  @tocca:Jon E. Wilson\t000  @toc2:11\tResponses  @tocca:Talal Asad\t000  @toc4:Appendix: The Trouble of Thinking: An Interview with Talal Asad  @tocca:David Scott\t000  @toc4:Talal Asad: A Bibliography  @tocca:Zainab Saleh\t000  @toc4:Notes\t000  Contributors\t000  Index\t000\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405563568471,"sku":"9780804752657","price":91.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804752657.jpg?v=1730492848","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/powers-of-the-secular-modern-9780804752657","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}