Edward Said's rhetoric of the secular / Mathieu E. Courville.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Courville, Mathieu, author.

Series:

Continuum religious studies.

Continuum religious studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Said, Edward W.

Secularism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Edward Said's Rhetoric of the Secular provides an important new reading of Edward W. Said's work, emphasizing not only the distinction but also the fuzzy borders between representations of 'the religious' and 'the secular' found within and throughout his oeuvre and at the core of some of his most customary rhetorical strategies. Mathieu Courville begins by examining Said's own reflections on his life, before moving on to key debates about Said's work within Religious Studies and Middle Eastern Studies, and his relationship to French critical theorists. Through close attention to Said's use of the literal and the figurative when dealing with religious, national and cultural matters, Courville discerns a pattern that illuminates what Said means by secular. Said's work shows that the secular is not the utter opposite of religion in the modern globalized world, but may exist in a productive tension with it."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

"Voyages in" : an introduction

Being and not being a "mere" book : history, memory, and self-understanding

The empire writes back : from Bernard Lewis to Martin Kramer

Scholars of religion and the return of the repressed : William D. Hart and Carl Olson

Emergent conversations : working with and through Said's "religious" questions

Theoretical travelogues : a slight return from Foucault back to Fanon and Sartre

"Convergences" : "the other Arab Muslims" and "the other America"

"The essay as form" of resistance : on the essayistic spirit in Said and Adorno

"Out of place" : a conclusion

In lieu of a postface : an appreciation of Edward W. Said / Vivek H. Dehejia.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613271822

9781472548993

147254899X

9781283271820

1283271826

9781441138118

1441138110

OCLC:

748242275