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Edward Said and the religious effects of culture / William D. Hart

Hart, William D. [Verfasser] [1957-]

Cambridge, U.K. [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2000

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 236 pages)

Cambridge studies in religion and critical thought ; 8

Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-234) and index

0-511-01170-9 ; 978-0-511-01170-2 ; 0-511-03410-5 ; 978-0-511-03410-7 ; 978-0-511-48841-2 ; 0-511-48841-6 ; 0-521-77052-1 ; 978-0-521-77052-1 ; 0-521-77052-1

BF 8800 CC 8500 MQ 2400 MS 6550 CI 6645 MS 6600

 

Said, Edward W., 1935-2003  Religionsphilosophie  Kulturphilosophie 

This book provides a distinctive account of Edward Said's critique of modern culture by highlighting the religion-secularism distinction on which it is predicated. It refers to religious and secular traditions and to tropes that extend the meaning and reference of religion and secularism in indeterminate ways. It covers Said's heterogeneous corpus--from Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography, his first book, to Orientalism, his most influential book, to his recent writings on the Palestinian question. The religion-secularism distinction lies behind Said's cultural criticism, and his notion of intellectual responsibility.