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Now, over the last few decades, as the various global crises have been accumulating — climate change, the threat of nuclear war as well as the dangers of nuclear energy, the uncontrollability of the global financial system, and so on — we now hear people saying things like: Look at what humanity has done. Now suddenly the subject is humanity, whereas originally, Euro-Americans had claimed: Look at the stunning achievements of the West.

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Why is it that aggression in the name of God shocks secular liberal sensibilities, whereas the act of killing in the name of the secular nation, or of democracy, does not?

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Talal Asad

Talal Asad

Born: 1933 (age 92)
Bio: Talal Asad is an anthropologist at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Known for:
  1. Formations of the secular (2003)
  2. Genealogies of religion (1993)
  3. On Suicide Bombing (2007)
  4. Anthropology & the Colonial Encounter (1973)

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