Edward Said and the Religious Effects of Culture
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- Author: William D. Hart, Duke University, North Carolina
- Date Published: May 2000
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521770521
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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.
Read more- First thorough study of the religious aspects and implications of Edward Said's work
- Of interest to those in cultural studies, postcolonial studies and oriental studies, as well as religion
- A fascinating new perspective on a major contemporary thinker
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"A fashionable performance at a high level..." Choice
See more reviews"This book will excite and reward in graduate courses on the politics of contemporary religious and culture." Religious Studies Review
"Hart meticulously analyses the constituent elements of Said's position and creates a much more nuanced and qualified assessment of its pros and cons. This book will excite and reward in graduate courses on the politics of contemporary religion and culture." Religious Studies Review Oct 2001
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- Date Published: May 2000
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521770521
- length: 252 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.54kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Cultural criticism as the transfiguration of religious thought
2. The religious effects of culture: nationalism
3. The religious effects of culture: orientalism
4. The religious effects of culture: imperialism
5. The responsibilities of the secular critic
6. Marx, Said and the Jewish question
Conclusion
Appendix A
Appendix B
Bibliography.
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