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Walking Into The Void
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Author : Arpad Szakolczai
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-10-17
Walking Into The Void written by Arpad Szakolczai and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-17 with Social Science categories.
The book starts by discussing the significance of walking for the experience of being human, including a comparative study of the language and cultures of walking. It then reviews in detail, relying on archaeology, two turning points of human history: the emergence of cave art sanctuaries and a new cultural practice of long-distance ‘pilgrimages’, implying a descent into such caves, thus literally the ‘void’; and the abandonment of walking culture through settlement at the end of the Ice Age, around the time when the visiting of cave sanctuaries also stopped. The rise of philosophy and Christianity is then presented as two returns to walking. The book closes by looking at the ambivalent relationship of contemporary modernity to walking, where its radical abandonment is combined with attempts at returns. The book ventures an unprecedented genealogy of walking culture, bringing together archaeological studies distant in both time and place, and having a special focus on the significance of the rise of representative art for human history. Our genealogy helped to identify settlement not as the glorious origin of civilisation, but rather as a source of an extremely problematic development. The findings of the book should be relevant for social scientists, as well as those interested in walking and its cultural and civilisational significance, or in the direction and meaning of human history.
Walking Into The Void
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Author : Arpad Szakolczai
language : en
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Release Date : 2017-10-17
Walking Into The Void written by Arpad Szakolczai and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-17 with Philosophy categories.
The book starts by discussing the significance of walking for the experience of being human, including a comparative study of the language and cultures of walking. It then reviews in detail, relying on archaeology, two turning points of human history: the emergence of cave art sanctuaries and a new cultural practice of long-distance 'pilgrimages', implying a descent into such caves, thus literally the 'void'; and the abandonment of walking culture through settlement at the end of the Ice Age, around the time when the visiting of cave sanctuaries also stopped. The rise of philosophy and Christianity is then presented as two returns to walking. The book closes by looking at the ambivalent relationship of contemporary modernity to walking, where its radical abandonment is combined with attempts at returns. The book ventures an unprecedented genealogy of walking culture, bringing together archaeological studies distant in both time and place, and having a special focus on the significance of the rise of representative art for human history. Our genealogy helped to identify settlement not as the glorious origin of civilisation, but rather as a source of an extremely problematic development. The findings of the book should be relevant for social scientists, as well as those interested in walking and its cultural and civilisational significance, or in the direction and meaning of human history.
Walking In The Void
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Author : Dougald Hine
language : en
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Release Date : 2020
Walking In The Void written by Dougald Hine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Glass art categories.
Walking In The Void
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Author : Dougald Hine
language : en
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Release Date : 2020
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Shadow When Evil Walks
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Author : Mark W. Leslie
language : en
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Release Date : 2023-02-28
Shadow When Evil Walks written by Mark W. Leslie and has been published by Page Publishing Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-28 with Fiction categories.
Darkness looms in the city that never sleeps which threatens the lives of its citizens, and the only ones who can stop it don't even know what they are truly dealing with. But with the aid of a mystery man, New York's Finest is ready to serve and protect the people. The only questions are "Can they?" and "Just how far they're willing to go?" For When Evil Walks, death follows.
Touching The Void
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Author : Joe Simpson
language : en
Publisher: Direct Authors
Release Date : 2012-12-12
Touching The Void written by Joe Simpson and has been published by Direct Authors this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-12 with Sports & Recreation categories.
The 25th Anniversary ebook, now with more than 50 images. 'Touching the Void' is the tale of two mountaineer’s harrowing ordeal in the Peruvian Andes. In the summer of 1985, two young, headstrong mountaineers set off to conquer an unclimbed route. They had triumphantly reached the summit, when a horrific accident mid-descent forced one friend to leave another for dead. Ambition, morality, fear and camaraderie are explored in this electronic edition of the mountaineering classic, with never before seen colour photographs taken during the trip itself.
Post Truth Society
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Author : Arpad Szakolczai
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-11-29
Post Truth Society written by Arpad Szakolczai and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-29 with Social Science categories.
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.
Political Anthropology As Method
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Author : Arpad Szakolczai
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-02-27
Political Anthropology As Method written by Arpad Szakolczai and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-27 with Social Science categories.
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 the pretended stance of scientific neutrality and advances a position that engages with the notion of participation, recognising its value and arguing that participation is essential to the development of a proper social and political understanding. An outline of what political anthropology can offer by way of methods, this invitation to consider the development of methodological ideas beyond the presumed ‘scientific’ and ‘universalistic’ approaches that dominate in the social sciences will appeal to scholars of anthropology, sociology and politics with interests in questions of method and methodology.
Han Shan Chan Buddhism And Gary Snyder S Ecopoetic Way
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Author : Joan Qionglin Tan
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2009-05-07
Han Shan Chan Buddhism And Gary Snyder S Ecopoetic Way written by Joan Qionglin Tan and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-07 with Religion categories.
Presents a comparative study of the ninth-century Chinese poet and recluse Han Shan (Cold Mountain) and Gary Snyder, an American poet and environmental activist. This book explains how Chan Buddhism has the potential to be recognized as an important voice in contemporary ecopoetry.
Magic And The Will To Science
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Author : Agnes Horvath
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-03-19
Magic And The Will To Science written by Agnes Horvath and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-19 with Social Science categories.
This book offers a political anthropological perspective on the problematic character of science, combining insights from historical sociology, political theory, and cultural anthropology. Its central idea, departing from the works of Frances Yates and the Gnosticism thesis of Eric Voegelin, is that far from being the radical opposite of magic, modern science effectively grew out of magic, and its varieties, like alchemy, Hermetic philosophy, the occult, Gnosticism, and Neoplatonism. Showing that the desire to use science to solve various – real or presumed – problems of human existence has created a permanent liminal crisis, it contends that the ‘will to science’ is parasitic, existing as it does in sheer relationality, outside of and in between concrete places and communities. A study of the mutual relationship between magic and science in different historical eras, ranging from the Early Neolithic to recent disease prevention ideas, Magic and the Will to Science will appeal to scholars and students of social and anthropological theory, and the philosophy and sociology of science.
