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43 produkter
Breaking Boundaries
Varieties of Liminality
Av Agnes Horvath, Bjørn Thomassen m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
454 kr
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Liminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for understanding transformation in a globalizing world. As a fundamental human experience, liminality transmits cultural practices, codes, rituals, and meanings in situations that fall between defined structures and have uncertain outcomes. …
Divinization and Technology
The Political Anthropology of Subversion
Av Agnes Horvath, Camil Francisc Roman m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
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This book offers a political anthropological discussion of subversion, exploring its imbrication with technological and divinization practices, and uncovering some of its particular effects on human existence, from prehistory until the contemporary age. Subversion is often romanticized as a means …
Breaking Boundaries
Varieties of Liminality
Av Agnes Horvath, Bjørn Thomassen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1921 kr
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Liminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for understanding transformation in a globalizing world. As a fundamental human experience, liminality transmits cultural practices, codes, rituals, and meanings in situations that fall between defined structures and have uncertain outcomes. …
Modern Leaders: Between Charisma and Trickery
Av Agnes Horvath, Arpad Szakolczai m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2512 kr
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This book considers the current striking rise of ‘outsider’ political leaders, catapulted, apparently, from nowhere, to take charge of a nation. Arguing that such leaders can be better understood with the help of the anthropologically based concept of ‘the trickster’, it offers studies of …
Walling, Boundaries and Liminality
A Political Anthropology of Transformations
Av Agnes Horvath, Marius Ion Benţa m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
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Contemporary challenges related to walls, borders and encirclement, such as migration, integration and endemic historical conflicts, can only be understood properly from a long-term perspective. This book seeks to go beyond conventional definitions of the long durée by locating the social practice …
Modern Leaders: Between Charisma and Trickery
Av Agnes Horvath, Arpad Szakolczai m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
691 kr
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This book considers the current striking rise of ‘outsider’ political leaders, catapulted, apparently, from nowhere, to take charge of a nation. Arguing that such leaders can be better understood with the help of the anthropologically based concept of ‘the trickster’, it offers studies of …
Political Alchemy: Technology Unbounded
Häftad, 2023
648 kr
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This book explores politics as a form of alchemy, understood as the transformation of entities through an alteration of their identities. Identifying this process as a common denominator of many political phenomena, such as EU integration, mediatisation, communism or globalisation, the author …
Political Anthropology of Ethnic and Religious Minorities
Av Arpad Szakolczai, Agnes Horvath m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
487 kr
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This book presents some arguments for why a political anthropological perspective can be particularly helpful for understanding the connected political and cultural challenges and opportunities posed by the situation of ethnic and religious minorities. The first chapter shortly introduces the major …
Political Alchemy: Technology Unbounded
Inbunden, 2021
2512 kr
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This book explores politics as a form of alchemy, understood as the transformation of entities through an alteration of their identities. Identifying this process as a common denominator of many political phenomena, such as EU integration, mediatisation, communism or globalisation, the author …
Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil: Tricksterology
Av Arpad Szakolczai, Agnes Horvath
E-bok, 2019
820 kr
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This book offers a new approach to the problem of evil through an examination of the anthropological figure of the ‘trickster’. A lesser known and much more recent term than evil, the authors use the trickster to facilitate a greater understanding of the return of evil in the modern era. Instead of …
Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil: Tricksterology
Av Arpad Szakolczai, Agnes Horvath
E-bok, 2019
838 kr
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This book offers a new approach to the problem of evil through an examination of the anthropological figure of the ‘trickster’. A lesser known and much more recent term than evil, the authors use the trickster to facilitate a greater understanding of the return of evil in the modern era. Instead of …
Divinization and Technology
The Political Anthropology of Subversion
Av Agnes Horvath, Camil Francisc Roman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2512 kr
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This book offers a political anthropological discussion of subversion, exploring its imbrication with technological and divinization practices, and uncovering some of its particular effects on human existence, from prehistory until the contemporary age. Subversion is often romanticized as a means …
Political Anthropology of Ethnic and Religious Minorities
Av Arpad Szakolczai, Agnes Horvath m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2512 kr
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This book presents some arguments for why a political anthropological perspective can be particularly helpful for understanding the connected political and cultural challenges and opportunities posed by the situation of ethnic and religious minorities. The first chapter shortly introduces the major …
Modern Leaders: Between Charisma and Trickery
Av Manussos Marangudakis, Arpad Szakolczai m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
814 kr
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This book considers the current striking rise of ‘outsider’ political leaders, catapulted, apparently, from nowhere, to take charge of a nation. Arguing that such leaders can be better understood with the help of the anthropologically based concept of ‘the trickster’, it offers studies of …
Modern Leaders: Between Charisma and Trickery
Av Manussos Marangudakis, Arpad Szakolczai m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
814 kr
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This book considers the current striking rise of ‘outsider’ political leaders, catapulted, apparently, from nowhere, to take charge of a nation. Arguing that such leaders can be better understood with the help of the anthropologically based concept of ‘the trickster’, it offers studies of …
Political Alchemy: Technology Unbounded
E-bok, 2021
746 kr
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This book explores politics as a form of alchemy, understood as the transformation of entities through an alteration of their identities. Identifying this process as a common denominator of many political phenomena, such as EU integration, mediatisation, communism or globalisation, the author …
Political Alchemy: Technology Unbounded
E-bok, 2021
762 kr
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This book explores politics as a form of alchemy, understood as the transformation of entities through an alteration of their identities. Identifying this process as a common denominator of many political phenomena, such as EU integration, mediatisation, communism or globalisation, the author …
Liminal Politics in the New Age of Disease
Technocratic Mimetism
Av Paul O'Connor, Agnes Horvath
E-bok, 2022
745 kr
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Liminal Politics in the New Age of Disease explores the phenomenon of ‘liminal politics’: an open-ended ‘state of exception’ in which normal rules no longer apply, and things which were previously unimaginable become possible – even appearing remarkably quickly to represent a ‘new …
Liminal Politics in the New Age of Disease
Technocratic Mimetism
Av Paul O'Connor, Agnes Horvath
E-bok, 2022
729 kr
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Liminal Politics in the New Age of Disease explores the phenomenon of ‘liminal politics’: an open-ended ‘state of exception’ in which normal rules no longer apply, and things which were previously unimaginable become possible – even appearing remarkably quickly to represent a ‘new …
Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil: Tricksterology
Av Agnes Horvath, Arpad Szakolczai
Häftad, 2021
691 kr
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This book offers a new approach to the problem of evil through an examination of the anthropological figure of the ‘trickster’. A lesser known and much more recent term than evil, the authors use the trickster to facilitate a greater understanding of the return of evil in the modern era. Instead of …
Liminal Politics in the New Age of Disease
Technocratic Mimetism
Av Agnes Horvath, Paul O'Connor
Inbunden, 2022
2133 kr
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Liminal Politics in the New Age of Disease explores the phenomenon of ‘liminal politics’: an open-ended ‘state of exception’ in which normal rules no longer apply, and things which were previously unimaginable become possible – even appearing remarkably quickly to represent a ‘new normal’. With …
Liminal Politics in the New Age of Disease
Technocratic Mimetism
Av Agnes Horvath, Paul O'Connor
Häftad, 2024
633 kr
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Liminal Politics in the New Age of Disease explores the phenomenon of ‘liminal politics’: an open-ended ‘state of exception’ in which normal rules no longer apply, and things which were previously unimaginable become possible – even appearing remarkably quickly to represent a ‘new normal’. With …
Magic and the Will to Science
A Political Anthropology of Liminal Technicality
Inbunden, 2024
2512 kr
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This book offers a political anthropological perspective on the problematic character of science, combining insights from historical sociology, political theory, and cultural anthropology. Its central idea, departing from the works of Frances Yates and the Gnosticism thesis of Eric Voegelin, is …
Magic and the Will to Science
A Political Anthropology of Liminal Technicality
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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This book offers a political anthropological perspective on the problematic character of science, combining insights from historical sociology, political theory, and cultural anthropology. Its central idea, departing from the works of Frances Yates and the Gnosticism thesis of Eric Voegelin, is …
Magic and the Will to Science
A Political Anthropology of Liminal Technicality
E-bok, 2024
813 kr
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This book offers a political anthropological perspective on the problematic character of science, combining insights from historical sociology, political theory, and cultural anthropology. Its central idea, departing from the works of Frances Yates and the Gnosticism thesis of Eric Voegelin, is …
Magic and the Will to Science
A Political Anthropology of Liminal Technicality
E-bok, 2024
813 kr
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This book offers a political anthropological perspective on the problematic character of science, combining insights from historical sociology, political theory, and cultural anthropology. Its central idea, departing from the works of Frances Yates and the Gnosticism thesis of Eric Voegelin, is …
Gnostic Fools
The Occult Origins of Our Ideological Age
E-bok, 2025
745 kr
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This book offers a political anthropological discussion of our contemporary situation regarding sceptical attitudes towards scientific expertise and authority, and the increasing role of power and politics. It does so through an exploration of the 'fool' or 'Gnostic fool' as a type, drawing on …
Gnostic Fools
The Occult Origins of Our Ideological Age
E-bok, 2025
745 kr
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This book offers a political anthropological discussion of our contemporary situation regarding sceptical attitudes towards scientific expertise and authority, and the increasing role of power and politics. It does so through an exploration of the 'fool' or 'Gnostic fool' as a type, drawing on …
Gnostic Fools
The Occult Origins of Our Ideological Age
Inbunden, 2025
2512 kr
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This book offers a political anthropological discussion of our contemporary situation regarding sceptical attitudes towards scientific expertise and authority, and the increasing role of power and politics. It does so through an exploration of the ‘fool’ or ‘Gnostic fool’ as a type, drawing on …
Walling, Boundaries and Liminality
A Political Anthropology of Transformations
Av Agnes Horvath, Marius Ion Benţa m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2512 kr
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Contemporary challenges related to walls, borders and encirclement, such as migration, integration and endemic historical conflicts, can only be understood properly from a long-term perspective. This book seeks to go beyond conventional definitions of the long durée by locating the social practice …
