02021 am 22003853u 450 991030663500332120201201084825.01-912808-52-8(CKB)4100000007522817(OAPEN)1002654(MiAaPQ)EBC6276401(ScCtBLL)7b260c8a-b2fd-423b-b35e-2404a8a0eff2(EXLCZ)99410000000752281720201201d2019 uy 0enguuuuu---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe logic of invention /by Roy WagnerChicago, Illinois :Hau Books,[2019]1 online resource (146 pages)0-9991570-5-1 In this long-awaited sequel to The Invention of Culture, Roy Wagner tackles the logic and motives that underlie cultural invention. Could there be a single, logical factor that makes the invention of the distinction between self and other possible, much as specific human genes allow for language? Wagner explores what he calls “the reciprocity of perspectives” through a journey between Euro-American bodies of knowledge and his in-depth knowledge of Melanesian modes of thought. This logic grounds variants of the subject/object transformation, as Wagner works through examples such as the figure-ground reversal in Gestalt psychology, Lacan’s theory of the mirror-stage formation of the Ego, and even the self-recursive structure of the aphorism and the joke. Juxtaposing Wittgenstein’s and Leibniz’s philosophy with Melanesian social logic, Wagner explores the cosmological dimensions of the ways in which different societies develop models of self and the subject/object distinction. CultureCulture.306Wagner Roy143434MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910306635003321The logic of invention2256056UNINA