Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and His Interlocutors

by Charles Hirschkind and David Scott

Book Overview

For more than three decades, Talal Asad has been engaged in a distinctive critical exploration of the conceptual assumptions that govern the West's knowledges-especially its disciplinary and disciplining knowledges-of 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804752664
• ISBN13: 9780804752664
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"