Arpad Szakolczai

Post-Truth Society (eBook, ePUB)

A Political Anthropology of Trickster Logic

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000506112
• Artikelnr.: 62832872

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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