Thinking about the secular body, pain, and liberal politics

Cultural Anthropology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 657-675

  Asad, Talal ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 80054058687     PISSN: 08867356     EISSN: 15481360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1360.2011.01118.x     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Charles Taylor, A Secular Age, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.
2. Berney Goodman, When the Body Speaks the Mind: A Psychiatrist Probes the Mysteries of Hypochondria and Munchausen's Syndrome, New York: Putnam, 1994.
3. Edward Royle, Victorian Infidels: The Origins of the British Secularist Movement, 1791-1866, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1974;
4. see also Edward Royle, Radicals, Secularists and Republicans: Popular Freethought in Britain, 1866-1915, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1980.
5. This is elegantly shown in Brian Dillon's The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives, New York: Faber and Faber, 2010.
6. Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, The Impossibility of Religious Freedom, Princeton: PrincetonUniversity Press, 2005.
7. Timothy Gorringe, God's Just Vengeance, Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1996, p. 224.
8. S. Agrell, "It's Wrong to Fund Private Religious Schools." http://www.theglobeandmail. com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070917.wlibs0917/BNStory/ontarioelection2007/, accessed December 8, 2008.
9. Sam Harris, The End of Faith, New York: Norton, 2004, p. 12.
10. Henry Maine, Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society and Its Relation to Modern Ideas, [1861], Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1950.
11. Abou Ali Farman Farmaian, Secular Immortal, Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 2011.
12. Donne, John; The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne; Charles M. Coffin, ed.; New York: Modern Library, 1952, pp. 428-429.
13. Ramie Targoff, John Donne; Body and Soul, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008, p. 22.
14. Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein; The Duty of Genius, London: Penguin, 1991, p. 185.
15. Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein; The Duty of Genius, London: Penguin, 1991, p. 374.
16. Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein; The Duty of Genius, London: Penguin, 1991, p. 585.
17. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, Oxford: Blackwell, 1953, IIiv.
18. Patricia Meyer Spack, Privacy: Concealing the Eighteenth-Century Self, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003, pp. 11-12.
19. Michel Foucault, Folie et déraison. Histoire de la folie à l'age classique, Paris: Gallimard, 1972, p. 381.
20. Michel Foucault, The Order of Things, New York: Vintage, 1973, pp. 277-278.
21. James Alan Fox and Marianne W. Zawitz, Statistics on Homicide Trends in the U.S., Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics.
22. Ignacio Ramonet, "Violences males," Le Monde diplomatique, June 2004. Ramonet points out that according to the statistical evidence such violence is as common in well-to-do families as among the poor.
23. I myself have mistakenly confused the two in Formations of the Secular.
24. Gilles Deleuze and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Masochism, New York: Zone, 1991, pp. 20-21.
25. Gilles Deleuze and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Masochism, New York: Zone, 1991, p. 22.
26. Bhrigupati Singh (who is writing a book on Indian concepts of sovereignty) has reminded me that Deleuze in A Thousand Plateaus drew the idea of the contract-force couple from Georges Dumezil's account of Indo-European concepts of sovereignty, Mitra-Varuna.
27. See Phyllis Mack, Heart Religion in the British Enlightenment, Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2008.
28. See R. S. Crane, "Suggestions toward a Genealogy of the 'Man of Feeling,'" A Journal of English Literary History 1(3[1934]):205.
29. KarenHalttunen, "Humanitarianism and the Pornography of Pain inAnglo-American Culture," American Historical Review 100(2[1995]):318.
30. KarenHalttunen, "Humanitarianism and the Pornography of Pain inAnglo-American Culture," American Historical Review 100(2[1995]):315.
31. See also her book Murder Most Foul; The Killer in the American Gothic Imagination, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
32. For a useful survey of the efflorescence of violent films in U.S. cinema, see Gabrielle Murray, "Representations of the Body in Pain and the Cinema Experience in Torture-Porn," Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media 50(Spring [2008]).
33. See also Noel Carroll, The Philosophy of Horror or Paradoxes of the Heart, New York: Routledge, 1990.
34. Jean-Luc Nancy; "A Deconstruction of Monotheism"; Religion beyond a Concept; Hent de Vries, ed.; New York: Fordham University Press, 2008, p. 385.
35. Jean-Luc Nancy; "A Deconstruction of Monotheism"; Religion beyond a Concept; Hent de Vries, ed.; New York: Fordham University Press, 2008, p. 387.
36. See Stanley Hauerwas and Romand Coles, Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary, Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2008, that describes some of these attitudes by distinguishing what they call radical democracy from liberal democracy.
37. Onpunishing violators of national law
38. see JamesQ.Whitman, Harsh Justice: Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide between America and Europe, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
39. This is a theme that Gil Anidjar has begun to explore in an original way. See, especially, his "We Have Never Been Jewish: An Essay in Asymmetric Hematology"; In Jewish Blood: Metaphor and Reality in Jewish History, Culture, and Religion; Mitchell Hart, ed.; New York: Routledge, 2009.