Description |
1 online resource (ix, 266 pages) : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-255) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction : what are savages for? -- Discourse is now -- New barbarism -- Mana type -- Commodity totemism -- Allegories of the sun, specters of excess -- Coda : the Solaris hypothesis. |
Summary |
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 real and the ideal. In their view, the savage philosopher mistakes connections between signs for connections between real objects and believes that discourse can have physical effects?in other words, they believe in magic. Christopher Bracken?s Magical Criticism brings the unacknowledged history o. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Semiotics.
|
|
Semiotics. |
|
Magical thinking.
|
|
Magical thinking. |
|
Philosophy and civilization.
|
|
Philosophy and civilization. |
|
Ethnophilosophy -- History.
|
|
Ethnophilosophy. |
|
History. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
History.
|
Other Form: |
Print version: Bracken, Christopher. Magical criticism. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2007 9780226069906 0226069907 (DLC) 2006038722 (OCoLC)76897643 |
ISBN |
9780226069920 (electronic book) |
|
0226069923 (electronic book) |
|
9780226069906 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
|
0226069907 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
|
9780226069913 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
|
0226069915 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
|