03804nam 22006854a 450 991078245050332120200520144314.01-281-95918-90-226-06992-3978661195918010.7208/9780226069920(CKB)1000000000577982(EBL)408359(OCoLC)476228668(SSID)ssj0000195392(PQKBManifestationID)11166492(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000195392(PQKBWorkID)10243582(PQKB)10241957(MiAaPQ)EBC408359(DE-B1597)523651(OCoLC)1058482713(DE-B1597)9780226069920(Au-PeEL)EBL408359(CaPaEBR)ebr10265937(CaONFJC)MIL195918(EXLCZ)99100000000057798220061120d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMagical criticism[electronic resource] the recourse of savage philosophy /Christopher BrackenChicago University of Chicago Pressc20071 online resource (278 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-06991-5 0-226-06990-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-255) and index.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.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 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. SemioticsMagical thinkingPhilosophy and civilizationEthnophilosophyHistorycritical, critique, criticism, savage, philosophy, philosopher, philosophical, enlightenment, time period, era, western, race, racial, racialized, racism, knowledge, identity, ideality, scholars, researchers, academic, scholarly, research, animism, soul, migration, ideal, discourse, physical, ethnocentric, ethnicity, native american, postmodernism, marx, nietzsche, proust, peirce, benjamin.Semiotics.Magical thinking.Philosophy and civilization.EthnophilosophyHistory.301.01Bracken Christopher1519124MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782450503321Magical criticism3757065UNINA