...Talal Asad Abstract This essay is an attempt at thinking through Wittgenstein's philosophy in order to clarify some aspects of what people call “religion.” Central to it is an exploration of the polarity between belief and practice and an attempt to reframe that polarity in terms of the mutually...

...Bruce B. Lawrence © 2020 Bruce B. Lawrence 2020 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). I am reading, absorbing, and reflecting on Talal's essay, “Thinking about Religion through Wittgenstein,” in the midst...

..., and how it circumscribes critique. This reading is offered through a series of snapshots of various veins and elements in Benjamin's essay, while also connecting this interpretation to the work of a number of contemporary scholars of colonialism, namely Talal Asad, David Scott, and Samera Esmeir, who all...

...Charles Hirschkind Abstract In the lead essay to this special section, Talal Asad explores some of the avenues opened up by Wittgenstein's work for students of religion. Highlighting some of the philosopher's key insights on the life of language, Asad argues that, instead of taking the opposition...

...Mayanthi Fernando © 2019 Mayanthi Fernando 2019 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Saba Mahmood begins the acknowledgments in Politics of Piety by thanking her mentors and teachers. Talal Asad's thinking, she...

... to it: “Nosce Te Ipsum,” wrote Linnaeus, presumably to signify that a few steps might remain before claiming for ourselves, with regard to wisdom, knowledge, or indeed learning, “mission accomplished.” As Talal Asad puts it with impeccably restrained style, there have been, in the past, circumstances...

...Charles Hirschkind © 2020 Charles Hirschkind 2020 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). “Signs have dissolved into her hands,” writes Talal Asad in describing the way the skilled pianist has learned to play fluidly...

... need acknowledgment and engagement by academic political theory remains an open question, one that I have explored elsewhere. 3 In this piece, Talal Asad engages in his usual insightful and generous manner with Wittgenstein, but the intuition about religion that he elaborates comes from...

... : Princeton University Press , 2016 . Allen Amy . The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory . New York : Columbia University Press , 2016 . Asad Talal . Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity . Stanford, CA : Stanford...

... past and future as “the transformation of the world through a transformation of our representational practices.” 63 The stakes involved in reconceiving our human history as truly ours and not just of one group or one group's fantasies of others is captured in Talal Asad's reflections...

... ongoing?” 26 Staying in the wake-work, inhabiting that Fanonian “zone of non-Being,” is made difficult by promises of redemption and creativity—the wishful thinking of our age, Lacan had said. What about the destruction of loss, or its generalization? Talal Asad observes that “we simply don't have...

... often fallen into the assumption brilliantly and lucidly formulated by Talal Asad: that “religion” is itself a modern concept, that “late nineteenth-century anthropological and theological thought rendered a variety of overlapping social usages rooted in changing and heterogeneous forms of life...

..., there is the recovery from a master's inflicted pain. But ultimately, questioning this question entails clarifying attendant confusions about a pain's owner and by extension its very existence. In his essay, Talal Asad seeks such discernment, such healing from pain and confusion, as he “thinks” about religion. He...

...,’ and ‘inadequacy’” through which the non-West is so often described. 46 As Talal Asad and Roger Owen put it, this body of knowledge production describes non-European “political life by looking for absent kinds of concepts—‘liberty,’ ‘progress,’ ‘humanism’ which are supposed to be distinctive of Western...

... Humanities Research Institute. https://uchri.org/foundry/you-stand-within-his-danger/ . Apter Michael . Danger: Our Quest for Excitement . Oxford : One World , 2007 . Asad Talal . “ The Concept of Cultural Translation in British Social Anthropology .” In Genealogies of Religion...