Limits of the Secular

Social Experience and Cultural Memory

AvKaustuv Roy

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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This book facilitates a missing dialogue between the secular and the transsecular dimensions of human existence. Kaustuv Roy argues that since secular reason of modernity can only represent the empirical dimension of existence, humans are forced to privatize the non-empirical dimension of being.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-07-05
Mått:148 x 210 x 13 mm
Vikt:311 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:223
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319839974

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Kaustuv Roy is professor of Philosophy and Sociology at Azim Premji University in Bangalore, India. He earned his Ph.D from Michigan State University and taught at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA. His previous books include Teachers in Nomadic Spaces and Neighborhoods of the Plantation: War, Politics and Education.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: Where Angels Fear.- 2. Concept Fetishism.- 3. The Saeculum.- 4. Cogitogenic Disorders.- 5. Not by Bread Alone.- 6. Formations of the Trans-secular.- 7. Metanoic Practice.- 8. Epilogue