For more than three decades, Talal Asad has been engaged in a distinctive critical exploration of the conceptual assumptions that govern the West\'s knowledges--especially its disciplinary and disciplining knowledges--of the non-Western world.
Among them: the relationship between colonial power and academic knowledge; the historical shifts giving shape to the complexly interrelated categories of the s.
The essays that make up this volume treat diverse aspects of this remarkable body of work.
For more than three decades, Talal Asad has been engaged in a distinctive critical exploration of the conceptual assumptions that govern the West\'s knowledges--especially its disciplinary and disciplining knowledges--of the non-Western world