ISBN:
0199915261
,
019991527X
,
0199915288
,
0199980217
,
9780199915262
,
9780199915279
,
9780199915286
,
9780199980215
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (xii, 245 pages)
,
illustrations
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Seligman, Adam B , 1954-. Rethinking pluralism
DDC:
390
Schlagwort(e):
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions
;
Experience
;
Pluralism
;
Ritual
;
Uncertainty
;
Pluralism
;
Uncertainty
;
Ritual
;
Experience
;
Pluralistische Gesellschaft
;
Ambiguität
;
Pluralistische Gesellschaft
;
Ambiguität
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
The importance of being ambiguous -- Interlude : ambiguity, order and the deity -- Notation and its limits -- Interlude : the Israelite red heifer and the edge of power in China -- Ritual and the rhythms of ambiguity -- Interlude : crossing the boundaries of empathy -- Shared experience -- Interlude : experience and multiplicity
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
'Rethinking Pluralism' suggests a new approach to the problem of ambiguity and social order, which goes beyond the default modern position of 'notation' (resort to rules and categories to disambiguate). The book argues that alternative, more particularistic modes of dealing with ambiguity through ritual and shared experience better attune to contemporary problems of living with difference
Anmerkung:
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