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Permanent Liminality and Modernity
Analysing the Sacrificial Carnival through Novels
Häftad, 2019
864 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive sociological study of the nature and dynamics of the modern world, through the use of a series of anthropological concepts, including the trickster, schismogenesis, imitation and liminality. Developing the view that with the theatre playing a central role, the …
Modern Leaders: Between Charisma and Trickery
Av Agnes Horvath, Arpad Szakolczai m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2519 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 Agnes Horvath, Arpad Szakolczai m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
693 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 …
Novels and the Sociology of the Contemporary
Häftad, 2019
793 kr
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This book substantiates two claims. First, the modern world was not simply produced by "objective" factors, rooted in geographical discoveries and scientific inventions, to be traced to economic, technological or political factors, but is the outcome of social, cultural and spiritual processes. …
Political Anthropology of Ethnic and Religious Minorities
Av Arpad Szakolczai, Agnes Horvath m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
486 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 …
Max Weber and Michel Foucault
Parallel Life-Works
Inbunden, 1998
2519 kr
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Max Weber and Michael Foucault are among the most controversial and fascinating thinkers of our century. This book is the first to jointly analyse them in detail, and to make effective links between their lives and work; it coincides with a substantial resurgence of interest in their writings.The …
Reflexive Historical Sociology
Inbunden, 1999
2519 kr
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This book reconstructs and brings together the work of a number of social and political theorists in order to gain new insight on the emergence and character of modern Western society. It examines the intersection point of social theory and historical sociology in a new theoretical approach called …
Genesis of Modernity
Inbunden, 2002
2519 kr
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The Genesis of Modernity reconstructs the ideas of three of the most important social and political theorists of the Twentieth Century, Max Weber, Michel Foucault and Eric Voegelin, on the distant roots and sources of modernity.Drawing upon the conceptual tools of social theory and political …
Sociology, Religion and Grace
Inbunden, 2006
1521 kr
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This book offers a sociological analysis of the Renaissance, focusing on the concept of grace, and the unity that exists between its various meanings: theological, anthropological (gift-giving, Mauss; and sociability, Simmel), and aesthetical (beauty and gracefulness).Since the seminal work of Max …
Reflexive Historical Sociology
Häftad, 2009
747 kr
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This book reconstructs and brings together the work of a number of social and political theorists in order to gain new insight on the emergence and character of modern Western society. It examines the intersection point of social theory and historical sociology in a new theoretical approach called …
Comedy and the Public Sphere
The Rebirth of Theatre as Comedy and the Genealogy of the Modern Public Arena
Inbunden, 2012
2578 kr
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The book aims at reframing the discussion on the "public sphere," usually understood as the place where the public opinion is formed, through rational discussion. The aim of this book is to give an account of this rationality, and its serious shortcomings, examining the role of the media and the …
Sociology, Religion and Grace
Häftad, 2012
471 kr
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This book offers a sociological analysis of the Renaissance, focusing on the concept of grace, and the unity that exists between its various meanings: theological, anthropological (gift-giving, Mauss; and sociability, Simmel), and aesthetical (beauty and gracefulness).Since the seminal work of Max …
Max Weber and Michel Foucault
Parallel Life-Works
Häftad, 2014
849 kr
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Max Weber and Michael Foucault are among the most controversial and fascinating thinkers of our century. This book is the first to jointly analyse them in detail, and to make effective links between their lives and work; it coincides with a substantial resurgence of interest in their writings. The …
Genesis of Modernity
Häftad, 2013
752 kr
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The Genesis of Modernity reconstructs the ideas of three of the most important social and political theorists of the Twentieth Century, Max Weber, Michel Foucault and Eric Voegelin, on the distant roots and sources of modernity.Drawing upon the conceptual tools of social theory and political …
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 …
Political Anthropology of Ethnic and Religious Minorities
Av Arpad Szakolczai, Agnes Horvath m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2519 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 …
Post-Truth Society
A Political Anthropology of Trickster Logic
E-bok, 2021
729 kr
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It is widely asserted that we are now living in a post-truth society. What that means, this book argues, is that the contemporary global world is thoroughly infested not only with trickster figures but an entire and operational trickster logic; or, that we now live in a Trickster Land – an argument …
Post-Truth Society
A Political Anthropology of Trickster Logic
E-bok, 2021
729 kr
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It is widely asserted that we are now living in a post-truth society. What that means, this book argues, is that the contemporary global world is thoroughly infested not only with trickster figures but an entire and operational trickster logic; or, that we now live in a Trickster Land – an argument …
Political Anthropology as Method
E-bok, 2023
710 kr
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This book explores considerations of method in the field of political anthropology, contending that this constitutes a distinct approach within the broader area of the human, social and political sciences. Faithful to the basic guiding ideas of anthropology, it nonetheless challenges and rejects …
Political Anthropology as Method
E-bok, 2023
710 kr
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This book explores considerations of method in the field of political anthropology, contending that this constitutes a distinct approach within the broader area of the human, social and political sciences. Faithful to the basic guiding ideas of anthropology, it nonetheless challenges and rejects …
Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil: Tricksterology
Av Agnes Horvath, Arpad Szakolczai
Häftad, 2021
693 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 …
Post-Truth Society
A Political Anthropology of Trickster Logic
Inbunden, 2021
2519 kr
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It is widely asserted that we are now living in a post-truth society. What that means, this book argues, is that the contemporary global world is thoroughly infested not only with trickster figures but an entire and operational trickster logic; or, that we now live in a Trickster Land – an argument …
Post-Truth Society
A Political Anthropology of Trickster Logic
Häftad, 2021
635 kr
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It is widely asserted that we are now living in a post-truth society. What that means, this book argues, is that the contemporary global world is thoroughly infested not only with trickster figures but an entire and operational trickster logic; or, that we now live in a Trickster Land – an argument …
Political Anthropology as Method
Inbunden, 2023
2139 kr
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This book explores considerations of method in the field of political anthropology, contending that this constitutes a distinct approach within the broader area of the human, social and political sciences. Faithful to the basic guiding ideas of anthropology, it nonetheless challenges and rejects …
Political Anthropology as Method
Häftad, 2023
606 kr
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This book explores considerations of method in the field of political anthropology, contending that this constitutes a distinct approach within the broader area of the human, social and political sciences. Faithful to the basic guiding ideas of anthropology, it nonetheless challenges and rejects …
Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Anthropology
Av Arpad Szakolczai, Paul O’Connor
Inbunden, 2025
5447 kr
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This Encyclopedia explores the anthropological underpinnings of politics. Featuring biographical entries that reconstruct the life-works of key theorists from across the globe alongside topical entries on a range of issues in political anthropology, it poses the question: what does it mean to be …
Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Anthropology
Av Paul O'Connor, Arpad Szakolczai
E-bok, 2025
861 kr
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This Encyclopedia explores the anthropological underpinnings of politics. Featuring biographical entries that reconstruct the life-works of key theorists from across the globe alongside topical entries on a range of issues in political anthropology, it poses the question: what does it mean to be …
