ISBN:
9780511488412
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xiii, 236 pages)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in religion and critical thought 8
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Erscheint auch als
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.6/092
Keywords:
Said, Edward W.
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Said, Edward W.
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Philosophie
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Religion / Philosophy
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Secularism
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Religionsphilosophie
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Kulturphilosophie
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Said, Edward W. 1935-2003
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Religionsphilosophie
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Kulturphilosophie
Abstract:
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. This distinction is both literal and figurative. It refers, on the one hand, to religious traditions and to secular traditions and, on the other hand, to tropes that extend the meaning and reference of religion and secularism in indeterminate ways. The author takes these tropes as the best way of organizing 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, as an act of imagination and narrative continuity, lies behind Said's cultural criticism, his notion of intellectual responsibility, and his public controversy with Michael Walzer about the meaning and the uses of the Exodus story and about the question of Palestine
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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Preliminary remarks
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Culture as the transfiguration of religious thought
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The religious effects of culture: nationalism
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The religious effects of culture: Orientalism
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The religious effects of culture: imperialism
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The responsibilities of the secular critic
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Marx, Said, and the Jewish question
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Concluding remarks: religion, secularism, and pragmatic naturalism
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Whose exodus, which interpretation?
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An exchange of letters between Michael Walzer and Edward Said
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511488412
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https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511488412
