Talal Asad

Talal Asad (born April 1932) is an anthropologist at the CUNY Graduate Center. Quotes ...Most of the collective problems that confront citizens (poverty, environmental degradation, war and terrorism, etc.) cannot be addressed locally. 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.” Interview by Hasan Azad, The Islamic Monthly, October 21, 2015 External links Category:Anthropologists from the United States Category:Educators from the United States Category:Immigrants to the United States Category:People from Pakistan Category:1932 births Category:Living people