10 Subjects and Agents in the History of Imperialism and Resistance

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. 1 Introduction: The Anthropological Skepticism of Talal Asad 1
4. 2 Secularization Revisited: A Reply to Talal Asad 12
5. 3 What Is an ''Authorizing Discourse"? 31
6. 4 Fasting for Bin Laden: The Politics of Secularization in Contemporary India 57
7. 5 Europe: A Minor Tradition 75
8. 6 Secularism and the Argument from Nature 93
9. 7 On General and Divine Economy: Talal Asad's Genealogy of the Secular and Emmanuel Levinas's Critique of Capitalism, Colonialism, and Money 113
10. 8 The Tragic Sensibility ofTalal Asad 134
11. 9 Redemption, Secularization, and Politics 154
12. 10 Subjects and Agents in the History of Imperialism and Resistance 180
13. 11 Responses 206
14. Appendix: The Trouble ofThinking: An Interview with Tala! Asad 243
15. Notes 305
16. Tala! Asad: A Bibliography 333
17. Contributors 339
18. Index 341