Frases de Talal Asad

Talal Asad é um antropólogo cultural que atua no Centro de Pós-Graduação da Universidade da Cidade de Nova Iorque. Fez contribuições teóricas para o pós-colonialismo, o cristianismo, o islamismo, os estudos rituais e para uma Antropologia do secularismo. Wikipedia

✵ 1932

Talal Asad: Frases em inglês

“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.””

Help us translate this quote

Talal Asad

Interview by Hasan Azad, The Islamic Monthly, October 21, 2015 http://theislamicmonthly.com/being-human-an-interview-with-talal-asad/