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

DescriptionIn Secular Translations, the anthropologist Talal Asad reflects on his lifelong engagement with secularism and its contradictions. He dr...

This volume interrogates settled ways of thinking about the seemingly interminable conflict between religious and secular values in our world today...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Talal AsadOpening with the provocative query "what might an anthropology of the secular look like?" this book explores the ...

He argues that "religionis a construction of European modernity, a construction that authorizes-for Westerners and non-Westerners alike-particular ...

This is a revised edition of John Milbank's masterpiece, which sketches the outline of a specifically theological social theory. The Times Higher E...

Publisher: Lit VerlagAuthor(s): Rudolf Von SinnerNumber of pages: 294Collection: Theology in the Public Square/ TheologiePublication date: 2022Dime...

Reducere. The nineteenth century saw the emergence both of history as an independent scientific discipline and of national history as a means to legitimize t...

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This book outlines the law relating to the church/state relationship in contemporary Western nations. From the most recent and comprehensive data a...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Muhammad AsadNumber of pages: 126Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 139 x 215 x 15Cover type: Pa...

Reducere. Soul of the Samurai contains modern translations of three classic works of Zen & Bushido. In Soul of the Samurai, bestselling author and respected ...

Reducere. In Global Origins of the Modern Self, from Montaigne to Suzuki, Avram Alpert contends that scholars have yet to fully grasp the constitutive force ...

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Reducere. DescriptionAt the beginning of the 21st century, science and philosophy are at the crossroads. The achievements of science and technology in the pr...

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'This is one of those rare books that have something really important to say. Anatol Lieven is telling his fellow realists that at this moment the ...

This volume charts the development of political thought between 1517-1625. Drawing on a wide range of sources from Europe and beyond, it offers a n...

Reducere. Recent years have seen a spectacular rise of the New Age movement and an ever-increasing interest in its beliefs and manifestations. This fascinati...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the euphoria that followed the departure of Haiti's hated dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, most Haitian and foreign analysts treated t...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagNumber of pages: 248Collection: MuseumPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 148 x 223 x 21Cover type: Paperback / softbackE...

Reducere. Turkey has gone through significant transformations over the last century--from the Ottoman Empire and Young Turk era to the Republic of today--but...

A recent coinage within international relations, "nation branding" designates the process of highlighting a country's positive characteristics for ...

This book outlines conceptual and methodological tools to understand how algorithmic operations shape the government of self and other. It offers a...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): John Franklin CopperNumber of pages: 354Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 213 x 155 x 20Cover type: Paper...

In the 1950s, Ghana, under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention People's Party, drew the world's attention as anticolonial activists,...

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Churches often realize they need to change. But if they're not careful, the way they change can hurt more than help.In this culmination of his well...

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Reducere. The Rosicrucian Trilogy features modern translations of Fama Fraternitatis (1614), Confessio Fraternitatis (1615), and The Chemical Wedding of Chri...

In this philosophical study, Dmitri Nikulin explores the concept's genealogy to argue that boredom is the mark of modernity. Considering such think...

Reducere. The origins of Liuhebafa (also called Water Boxing) can be traced back to the Daoist sage Chen Tuan (c. 871-989 A.D.). Chen is a mystical figure wh...

Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press LtdAuthor(s): Lamont DeHaven KingIllustration(s): maps; mapsNumber of pages: 244Publication date: 2006Dimensions:...

Reducere. There are two strands woven together in the history of the Bible and its translations. One is the development of the biblical text: its materials, ...

Bringing together the work of top specialists and emerging scholars in the field, this volume is the first book-length study of the rapport between...

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Hearing has traditionally been understood as the second sense -- less rational and modern than seeing, the master of all senses, the first sense. R...

Three-time winner of the Runciman Award Roderick Beaton looks at the centuries of events that have shaped the intricacies of Greece's unique positi...

Publisher: Gilgamesh PublishingAuthor(s): Baria AlamuddineIllustration(s): 15 Diagrams and graphsNumber of pages: 250Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

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Declares the end of the nation state as a political proposition predicting the dissolution of the state as an organizing framer of politics.

Reducere. DescriptionWe live in the grip of a great illusion about politics, Pierre Manent argues in A World beyond Politics? It's the illusion that we would...

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