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