LEADER 02021 am  22003853u 450 
001 9910306635003321
005 20201201084825.0
010   $a1-912808-52-8
035   $a(CKB)4100000007522817
035   $a(OAPEN)1002654
035   $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6276401
035   $a(ScCtBLL)7b260c8a-b2fd-423b-b35e-2404a8a0eff2
035   $a(EXLCZ)994100000007522817
100   $a20201201d2019      uy             0
101 0 $aeng
135   $auuuuu---auuuu
181   $ctxt$2rdacontent
182   $cc$2rdamedia
183   $acr$2rdacarrier
200 14$aThe logic of invention /$fby Roy Wagner
210  1$aChicago, Illinois :$cHau Books,$d[2019]
215   $a1 online resource (146 pages)
311   $a0-9991570-5-1 
330   $aIn 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. 
606   $aCulture
615  0$aCulture.
676   $a306
700   $aWagner$b Roy$0143434
801  0$bMiAaPQ
801  1$bMiAaPQ
801  2$bMiAaPQ
906   $aBOOK
912   $a9910306635003321
996   $aThe logic of invention$92256056
997   $aUNINA