LEADER 03534nam 22007454a 450 001 9910966414303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786611959180 010 $a9781281959188 010 $a1281959189 010 $a9780226069920 010 $a0226069923 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226069920 035 $a(CKB)1000000000577982 035 $a(EBL)408359 035 $a(OCoLC)476228668 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000195392 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11166492 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000195392 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10243582 035 $a(PQKB)10241957 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408359 035 $a(DE-B1597)523651 035 $a(OCoLC)1058482713 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226069920 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408359 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10265937 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL195918 035 $a(Perlego)1850616 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000577982 100 $a20061120d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMagical criticism $ethe recourse of savage philosophy /$fChristopher Bracken 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (278 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780226069913 311 08$a0226069915 311 08$a9780226069906 311 08$a0226069907 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 241-255) and index. 327 $tIntroduction : what are savages for? --$tDiscourse is now --$tThe new barbarism --$tThe mana type --$tCommodity totemism --$tAllegories of the sun, specters of excess --$tCoda : the Solaris hypothesis. 330 $aDuring 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. 606 $aSemiotics 606 $aMagical thinking 606 $aPhilosophy and civilization 606 $aEthnophilosophy$xHistory 615 0$aSemiotics. 615 0$aMagical thinking. 615 0$aPhilosophy and civilization. 615 0$aEthnophilosophy$xHistory. 676 $a301.01 700 $aBracken$b Christopher$01813232 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910966414303321 996 $aMagical criticism$94366142 997 $aUNINA