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Vassos Argyrou - Gift of European Thought and the Cost of Living, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

Gift of European Thought and the Cost of Living

Av Vassos Argyrou

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Beskrivning
European thought is often said to be a gift to the rest of the world, but what if there is no gift as such? What if there is only an economy where every giving is also a taking, and every taking is also a giving? This book extends the question of economies by making a case for an "economy of thought" and a "political economy." It argues that all thinking and doing presupposes taking, and therefore giving, as the price to pay for taking; or that there exists a "cost of living," which renders the idea of free thinking and living untenable. The argument is developed against the Enlightenment directive to think for oneself as the means of becoming autonomous and shows that this "light," given to the rest of the world as a gift, turns out to be nothing.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2017-04-05
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 8 mm
  • Vikt: 209 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 146
  • Förlag: Berghahn Books
  • ISBN: 9781785335259
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Vassos Argyrou is Reader in Social Anthropology in the School of Social Sciences, University of Hull. His publications include Tradition and Modernity in the Mediterranean: The Wedding as Symbolic Struggle (Cambridge University Press, 1996), Anthropology and the Will to Meaning: A Postcolonial Critique (Pluto Press, 2002), and The Logic of Environmentalism: Anthropology, Ecology and Postcoloniality (Berghahn Books, 2005).

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"...an extremely well thought out, interesting and timely piece of work... Its scope and concerns are simply exemplary: this is a book of social theory written by an anthropologist who fully uses the perspective given by his own disciplinary background to question deeply ingrained commonplaces of European thought, in particular the 'critical tradition,' without simply being dismissive of any use of critical thinking." * Arpad Szakolczai, University College Cork

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