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Edward Said and the religious effects of culture /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Edward Said and the religious effects of culture // William D. Hart.
remainder title:	Edward Said & the Religious Effects of Culture
Author:	Hart, William D.,
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 236 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Religion - Philosophy. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511488412
ISBN:	9780511488412 (ebook)

Edward Said and the religious effects of culture /
Hart, William D.,1957-

Edward Said and the religious effects of culture /Edward Said & the Religious Effects of CultureWilliam D. Hart. - 1 online resource (xiii, 236 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in religion and critical thought ;8. - Cambridge studies in religion and critical thought ;9..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Preliminary remarks --

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.

ISBN: 9780511488412 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

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Said, Edward W.
Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Religion
--Philosophy.

LC Class. No.: BL51 / .H336 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 306.6/092

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