Format:
1 online resource (243 pages)
ISBN:
9781003225553
,
1003225551
,
9781000506105
,
100050610X
,
9781000506112
,
1000506118
Series Statement:
Contemporary liminality 15
Content:
"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 advanced by the claim that in modernity liminality has become permanent; or that modern life is patently absurd. The first part of the book presents a series of 'guides' to this condition, in the form of key thinkers and writers who can help us understand and navigate our Trickster Land. Such guides include Hermann Broch, Lewis Hyde, Roberto Calasso, Michel Serres, Sándor Márai, Colin Thubron, and Albert Camus. The second part goes on to discuss five main regions of Trickster Land: art, thought, the economy, politics, and society. This last, central chapter of the book contrasts trickster logic with the basic, foundational logic of social life, presented as gift-giving by Marcel Mauss and as sociability by Georg Simmel, and which is expressed here, combining Heraclitus and Plato with the Gospel of John, by three basic terms of ancient Greek culture, as arkhé charis logos: meaningful social life originally and in its essence is animated by the power of kind benevolence. This volume will appeal to scholars of social theory, anthropology and sociology with interests in political thought and contemporary culture"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032116198
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032126456
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Szakolczai, Árpád Post-truth society Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2022 ISBN 9781032116198
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032126456
Language:
English
Keywords:
Wahrheit
;
Trickster
;
Politische Anthropologie
;
Sozialphilosophie
Author information:
Szakolczai, Árpád 1958-
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