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100 1 |aHorváth, Ágnes.
245 14|aThe Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil|h[electronic resource].
260 |aLondon :|bRoutledge,|c2019.
300 |a1 online resource (225 p.).
490 1 |aContemporary Liminality Ser.
500 |aDescription based upon print version of record.
505 0 |aCover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Plato and other guides; Thinking about evil; The flux and the void; The living dead; Chapter structure; Notes; PART I: Presenting the trickster; 1. The trickster in anthropology: The figure as seen from the outside; Conclusion; Notes; 2. Techniques of trickster entrapment: The nets of spiders and magicians; The Zande trickster, and what might it mean that a trickster is a spider; Trickster formulas and short cuts
505 8 |aThe trickster as transformer-fixerWhy these are the Zande whose trickster is a spider?; Other spider tricksters; Zande witchcraft and sorcery; Back to the present: concluding parables; Notes; 3. Hermes the trickster and the Kabeiroi: Moving towards evil; Hermes, the enchanting Greek trickster; The Homeric hymn to Hermes; Kerényi's Hermes; Dionysus the ecstatic trickster; Prometheus the titan trickster; The Kabeiroi as the arch-tricksters; Hermes in modernity; Notes; 4. Plato' s Theaetetus: The Sophists and secret trickster knowledge; The troubles with knowledge
505 8 |aSecret knowledge in the TheaetetusTrickster knowledge; Knowledge and its secrets; Conclusion: revisiting the indestructible; Notes; 5. Vedic tricksterology; Introduction; The problem of meat-eating and what is behind it; The rise of self-consciousness; Vedic mentality; Vedic sacrifice; Sacrificial mentality; The sacrificial vision; From split self-consciousness to Gnostic world-rejection; Substitution; Imitation and metamorphosis; The negligible; Self-divinisation (theosis); Conclusion; Notes; PART II: Tracking trickster traces: evil machinations
505 8 |a6. Prehistoric trickster: Archaic outlines of evilThe trickster and Eros; Prehistoric trickster images; The trickster and the mime; Eros and sacrifice; Notes; 7. The troglodytes: Evil proto-scientific methods for transformation; Introducing the troglodytes; Notes; 8. Monsters: Creatures of the flux; Monsters: creatures of the flux; The 'geometric joy' of emptiness; The Santa María la Real Monastery of Nájera; Notes; 9. Evil alchemy: The incommensurable; The alchemy of the sensuals; Notes; Concluding comments: On methodology in tricksterology; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index
520 |aThis 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 simply opposing good' and evil', the figure of the trickster is used to pursue the trajectories of similarities and quasi-similarities through imitation. After engaging with the trickster as presented in comparative anthropology and mythology, where it appears in tales and legends as a strange, erratic outsider, the authors seek to gain an inside perspective of trickster knowledge through an examination of mythology and the classical world, including both philosophers and poets. The book then goes on to trace the trickster through prehistory, using archaeological evidence to complement the diverse narratives. In this way, and by investigating the knowledge and customs surrounding evil, the authors use the figure of the trickster to provide an unprecedented diagnosis of the contemporary world, where external, mechanical rationality has become taken for granted and even considered as foundational in politics, economics, and technologised science. The authors advance the idea that the modern world, with its global free markets, mass mediatic democracy and technologised science, represents a universalisation of trickster logic. The Political Sociology and Anthropology of the Evil will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of social theory, political anthropology and political sociology, as well as those interested in the ways in which evil can infiltrate reality.
588 |aOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
650 7|aSOCIAL SCIENCE / General|2bisacsh
650 7|aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General|2bisacsh
650 0|aPolitical sociology.
650 0|aTricksters.
700 1 |aSzakolczai, Árpád.
856 40|3Taylor & Francis|uhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429458415
856 42|3OCLC metadata license agreement|uhttp://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
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