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Magical criticism : the recourse of savage philosophy /

During the Enlightenment, Western scholars racialized ideas, deeming knowledge based on reality superior to that based on ideality. Scholars labeled inquiries into ideality, such as animism and soul-migration,?savage philosophy,? a clear indicator of the racism motivating the distinction between the...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Bracken, Christopher
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2007.
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Table des matières:
  • Introduction : what are savages for?
  • Discourse is now
  • The new barbarism
  • The mana type
  • Commodity totemism
  • Allegories of the sun, specters of excess
  • Coda : the Solaris hypothesis.