On Pain and Passibility, or the Temporalities of Ensoulment
The intervention of Chapter 2 in Formations of the Secular (Asad 2003), "Thinking about Agency and Pain," hinges on formulating pain as a species of action. This specification is also a means of theorizing the temporality of formations themselves, the temporalization of form. The modern co...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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Religion and society
Year: 2024, Volume: 15, Issue: 1, Pages: 133-136 |
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| Summary: | The intervention of Chapter 2 in Formations of the Secular (Asad 2003), "Thinking about Agency and Pain," hinges on formulating pain as a species of action. This specification is also a means of theorizing the temporality of formations themselves, the temporalization of form. The modern concept of agency, it turns out, is a force of temporal homogenization or, more simply, a spatialization of time that necessarily mistakes pain for an ahistorical null point. |
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| ISSN: | 2150-9301 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion and society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3167/arrs.2024.150112 |
