Edward Said's rhetoric of the secular

Edward Said's rhetoric of the secular / Mathieu E. Courville.

Contends that Said's interpretation of the secular is not the utter opposite of religion in the modern globalized world. "Edward Said's Rhetoric of the Secular" provides an important new reading of Edward W. Said's work, emphasizing not only the distinction but also the fuzz...

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Main Author: Courville, Mathieu
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2010.
Series:Continuum religious studies.
Subjects:
Said, Edward W.
Secularism.
RELIGION > Agnosticism.
Secularism
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Table of Contents:
  • "Voyages in" : an introduction
  • Being and not being a "mere" book : history, memory, and self-understanding
  • The empire writes back : from Bernard Lewis to Martin Kramer
  • Scholars of religion and the return of the repressed : William D. Hart and Carl Olson
  • Emergent conversations : working with and through Said's "religious" questions
  • Theoretical travelogues : a slight return from Foucault back to Fanon and Sartre
  • "Convergences" : "the other Arab Muslims" and "the other America"
  • "The essay as form" of resistance : on the essayistic spirit in Said and Adorno
  • "Out of place" : a conclusion
  • In lieu of a postface : an appreciation of Edward W. Said / Vivek H. Dehejia.

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