It is widely asserted that we are now living in a post-truth society. What that means, this book argues, is that the contemporary world is thoroughly infested by a trickster logic - an argument advanced by the claim that in modernity liminality has become permanent; or that modern life is patently absurd.
It is widely asserted that we are now living in a post-truth society. What that means, this book argues, is that the contemporary world is thoroughly infested by a trickster logic - an argument advanced by the claim that in modernity liminality has become permanent; or that modern life is patently absurd.
Arpad Szakolczai is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at University College Cork, Ireland, and was ERC panel member 2011-2018. He is the author of Sociology, Religion and Grace: A Quest for the Renaissance, Comedy and the Public Sphere, Novels and the Sociology of the Contemporary and Permanent Liminality and Modernity, and co-author of Walking into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking, The Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil: Tricksterology and From Anthropology to Social Theory: Rethinking the Social Sciences.
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Introduction Part I: Guides in Trickster Land 1. Hermann Broch: The Spell 2. Lewis Hyde: The Gift and The Trickster 3. Roberto Calasso: The Revolution and its Shipwrecking 4. Michel Serres: The Parasite, from Hermes the Communicator to Don Juan the First Hero of Modernity 5. Sándor Márai: From Krisztina a First Heroine of Modernity to an Encounter with the Russians 6. Colin Thubron: Encounters with Asia 7. Albert Camus: The Absurd Revolt Part II: Exploring the Regions of Trickster Land 8. Trickster Art: Imitativity, Effect-Mongering vs. Graceful Beauty, and Picasso 9. Trickster Thought: Magi, Mediation and Consciousness, and Sartre 10. Trickster Economy: The Fairground Origins of Infinite Substitutability 11. Trickster Politics: The Trick-Ful Joining of Representation and Election 12. Trickster Society: Welcome to Absurdistan! Conclusion
Introduction Part I: Guides in Trickster Land 1. Hermann Broch: The Spell 2. Lewis Hyde: The Gift and The Trickster 3. Roberto Calasso: The Revolution and its Shipwrecking 4. Michel Serres: The Parasite, from Hermes the Communicator to Don Juan the First Hero of Modernity 5. Sándor Márai: From Krisztina a First Heroine of Modernity to an Encounter with the Russians 6. Colin Thubron: Encounters with Asia 7. Albert Camus: The Absurd Revolt Part II: Exploring the Regions of Trickster Land 8. Trickster Art: Imitativity, Effect-Mongering vs. Graceful Beauty, and Picasso 9. Trickster Thought: Magi, Mediation and Consciousness, and Sartre 10. Trickster Economy: The Fairground Origins of Infinite Substitutability 11. Trickster Politics: The Trick-Ful Joining of Representation and Election 12. Trickster Society: Welcome to Absurdistan! Conclusion
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