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The Metamorphosis
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Little Prince
The Trial
The Stranger
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
The Diary of a Young Girl
Madame Bovary
Wuthering Heights
1984
Pride and Prejudice
The Picture of Dorian Gray
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
Siddhartha
Talal Asad
The construction of civilizational difference is not exclusive in any simple sense. The de-essentialization of Islam is paradigmatic for all thinking about the assimilation of non-European peoples to European civilization. The idea that people's historical experience is inessential to them, that it can be shed at will, makes it possible to argue more strongly for the Enlightenment's claim to universality: Muslims, as members of the abstract category "humans," can be assimilated or (as some recen ...more
Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity

Steven Magee
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Steven Magee

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