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UNINA9910966414303321 |
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Bracken Christopher |
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Magical criticism : the recourse of savage philosophy / / Christopher Bracken |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2007 |
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9786611959180 |
9781281959188 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (278 p.) |
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Semiotics |
Magical thinking |
Philosophy and civilization |
Ethnophilosophy - History |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-255) and index. |
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Introduction : what are savages for? -- Discourse is now -- The new barbarism -- The mana type -- Commodity totemism -- Allegories of the sun, specters of excess -- Coda : the Solaris hypothesis. |
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During the Enlightenment, Western scholars racialized ideas, deeming knowledge based on reality superior to that based on ideality. Scholars labeled inquiries into ideality, such as animism and soul-migration, "savage philosophy," a clear indicator of the racism motivating the distinction between the real and the ideal. In their view, the savage philosopher mistakes connections between signs for connections between real objects and believes that discourse can have physical effects-in other words, they believe in magic. Christopher Bracken's Magical Criticism brings the unacknowledged history of this racialization to light and shows how, even as we have rejected ethnocentric notions of "the savage," they remain active today in everything from attacks on postmodernism to Native American land disputes. Here Bracken reveals that many of the most influential |
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Western thinkers dabbled in savage philosophy, from Marx, Nietzsche, and Proust, to Freud, C. S. Peirce, and Walter Benjamin. For Bracken, this recourse to savage philosophy presents an opportunity to reclaim a magical criticism that can explain the very real effects created by the discourse of historians, anthropologists, philosophers, the media, and governments. |
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UNINA9910770256203321 |
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Nilsen Ann |
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Biographical Life Course Research : Studying the Biography-History Dynamic / / by Ann Nilsen |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023 |
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[1st ed. 2023.] |
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1 online resource (186 pages) |
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Sociology - Methodology |
Human geography |
Sociology |
Social groups |
Language and languages - Style |
Sociological Methods |
Human Geography |
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging |
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Chapter 1 Life Course Studies and Biographical Research: Exploring the Individual-Society Relationship -- Chapter 2 The origins of Biographical and Life Course Research -- Chapter 3 The Revival of Biographical Research in Europe and America -- Chapter 4 Time and Temporality in Biographical Life Course Research -- Chapter 5 The Future as a Topic in Biographical Life Course Approaches -- Chapter 6 Methodological |
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and Other Controversies -- Chapter 7 Reflections. |
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“Biographical Life Course Research provides a fascinating comparative/historical account of the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of life course study, from the Chicago School to contemporary debates surrounding structure and agency, postmodern individualism, and the “cultural turn” in biographical research. Insightfully, Ann Nilsen details how growing recognition of the gendered character of life courses has enhanced understanding of history and biography.” —Jeylan Mortimer, University of Minnesota, USA “This is the ideal volume for teaching biographical and life course research methods and will be essential reading for students wishing to use this powerful approach in their own studies. It provides a blueprint for how we might forge better connections between qualitative and quantitative approaches to research, using biographical methods to address the great challenges of our times including growing inequality and climate disaster.” —Rachel Thomson, University of Sussex, UK This open access book explores an approach that connects individual and societal processes throughout history and shifting trends in sociological perspectives, influenced by C. Wright Mills’ theories of time and temporality. It traces its origins from American pragmatist thought and Chicago qualitative sociology in the early 20th century to the revival of biographical research in European and American sociology during the 1970s. The book shows empirical studies from this vibrant research approach can bridge methodological gaps between qualitative and quantitative biographical studies, applicable to various topics like class, gender, ethnicity, and intergenerational dimensions. Ann Nilsen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bergen, Norway. She has been a visiting Professor at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, and University College London, UK. The biographical life course approach has been the methodological basis of her empirical research, published in books and articles. . |
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