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

By:

Hart, William David

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Cambridge studies in religion and critical thought ; 8.Publication details: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 236 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0511011709
9780511011702
0511034105
9780511034107
9780511488412
0511488416
0521770521
9780521770521
1107118999
9781107118997
0511172745
9780511172748
0511310757
9780511310751
1280421142
9781280421143

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Edward Said and the religious effects of culture.DDC classification:

306.6/092 21

LOC classification:

BL51 .H336 2000eb

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08.37
CC 8500
MQ 2400

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Contents:

Preliminary remarks -- Culture as the transfiguration of religious thought -- The religious effects of culture: nationalism -- The religious effects of culture: Orientalism -- The religious effects of culture: imperialism -- The responsibilities of the secular critic -- Marx, Said, and the Jewish question -- Concluding remarks: religion, secularism, and pragmatic naturalism -- Whose exodus, which interpretation? -- An exchange of letters between Michael Walzer and Edward Said.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-234) and index.

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.