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    Lived-Body Experiences in Virtual Reality : A Phenomenology of the Virtual Body (2023)
    Bielefeld : transcript Verlag | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9783839466766
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (212 p.)
    Series Statement: Digitale Gesellschaft 61
    DDC: 306.461
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: What is it like to perceive a virtual object through the sensed presence of a virtual body? How do subject-object relations occur and can be actualized in virtual environments? Zeynep Akbal explores the impact of virtual reality (VR) technology on the subjective experience of the body and situates the results in context with existing theories in media sciences and the phenomenology of bodily perception. This study presents VR technology as a tool that can be used to more closely examine and study the fundamental intersections of the humanities and the natural sciences that explore the nature of perception.
    DOI: 10.1515/9783839466766
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    No Bosses, No Gods : Marx, Engels, and the Twenty-first Century Study of Religion (2023)
    Berlin : De Gruyter | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9783111065540
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 280 p.)
    Series Statement: Religion and Reason : Theory in the Study of Religion , 68
    DDC: 306.6
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    Keywords: Marx, Karl ; Engels, Friedrich ; Religionssoziologie ; Religionswissenschaft ; Religionskritik ; Religionsphilosophie ; Rezeption ; Marxismus
    Abstract: Flagging enrollments. Disappearing majors. Closed departments. The academic study of religion is in trouble. No Bosses, No Gods argues that Karl Marx is essential for reversing course-but it will take letting go of what most scholars think they know about him. The book's first half draws on the scholarship of international specialists-as well as new translations of the original German texts-to present Marx the anti-theorist, a political journalist deeply skeptical about what happens when the professoriate sits down to "theorize" about social worlds. The second half appeals to this modified portrait of Marx and charts a new course beyond both actually existing religious studies and contemporary genealogies of the religion category. The result, perhaps, is an academic study of religion worth having in the twenty-first century.
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    Westernness : Critical Reflections on the Spatio-temporal Construction of the West (2022)
    München : De Gruyter Oldenbourg | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9783110728422
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 261 p.)
    Series Statement: SpatioTemporality / RaumZeitlichkeit : Practices-Concepts-Media / Praktiken - Konzepte - Medien , 12
    DDC: 909.09821
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    Abstract: The word "West" is omnipresent and often unquestioned. The goal of this volume is to elaborate a critical reflection on this concept and make these implicit processes explicit. The articles focus on spatio‐temporal practices regarding the production and representation of westernness. Taking critical perspectives, which view the West from the inside and the outside, they address issues of highest political and social relevance.
    DOI: 10.1515/9783110728422
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    Around the Day in Eighty Worlds : Politics of the Pluriverse (2021)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781478021438
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (198 p.)
    Series Statement: Thought in the Act : 18
    DDC: 147/.4
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    Keywords: Weltbild ; Ontologie ; Perspektivenübernahme
    Abstract: In Around the Day in Eighty Worlds Martin Savransky calls for a radical politics of the pluriverse amid the ongoing devastation of the present. Responding to an epoch marked by the history of colonialism and ecological devastation, Savransky draws on the pragmatic pluralism of William James to develop what Savransky calls a "pluralistic realism"-an understanding of the world as simultaneously one and many, ongoing and unfinished, underway and yet to be made. Savransky explores the radical multifariousness of reality by weaving key aspects of James's thought together with divergent worlds and stories: of Magellan's circumnavigation, sorcery in Mozambique, God's felt presence among a group of evangelicals in California, visible spirits in Zambia, and ghosts in the wake of the 2011 tsunami in Japan. Throughout, he experiments with these storied worlds to dramatize new ways of approaching the politics of radical difference and the possibility of transforming reality. By exploring and constructing relations between James's pluralism and the ontological turn in anthropology, Savransky offers a new conceptualization of the pluriverse that fosters modes of thinking and living otherwise.
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    Violence and Power in the Thought of Hannah Arendt (2021)
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780812297942
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 p.)
    Edition: 2021
    Series Statement: Intellectual History of the Modern Age
    DDC: 303.601
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    CI 6373
    Keywords: Arendt, Hannah ; Macht ; Gewalt ; Staatslehre ; Politische Theorie ; Politisches Denken ; Political science Philosophy ; Political violence ; Power (Philosophy) ; Violence Political aspects ; PHILOSOPHY / Political ; Philosophy ; Political Science ; Public Policy
    Abstract: Hannah Arendt was one of the foremost political theorists of the twentieth century to wrestle with the role of violence in public life. Yet remarkably, despite the fact that it was perhaps the most pressing issue of her era, this theme in her work has rarely been explored. In Violence and Power in the Thought of Hannah Arendt, Caroline Ashcroft deepens our understanding of Arendt's conception of the role of violence, offering a critical reading of her work and using it as a provocation to think about how we might engage with contemporary ideas.Arendt has generally been thought to exclude acts of violence from "the political," based on her supposed idealization of ancient democratic politics. Ashcroft argues that Arendt has been widely misunderstood by both critics and advocates on this. By examining Arendt's thought on violence in key examples of political practice such as modern Jewish politics, the politics of Greece and Rome, and the French and American revolutions, Ashcroft reveals a more pragmatic notion of the place of violence in the political. She argues that what Arendt opposes in political violence is the use of force to determine politics, an idea central to modern sovereignty. What Arendt criticizes is not violence as such, but the misuse of violence and misunderstandings of politics which exclude participatory power altogether.This work also engages with a wider set of concerns in political theory by obliging us to rethink the relations between violence and politics. Arendt's work offers a way to bridge the gulf between sovereign or realist politics and nonhierarchical, nonviolent participatory politics, and thus offers valuable resources for contemporary political theory.
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    DOI: 10.9783/9780812297942
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    Eating in Theory (2021)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781478012924
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (208 p.)
    Series Statement: Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices : 20
    DDC: 394.12
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    CC 6600
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    LC 17000
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    ZE 45200
    Keywords: Mensch ; Nahrungsaufnahme ; Ess- und Trinksitte ; Philosophie ; Feldforschung
    Abstract: As we taste, chew, swallow, digest, and excrete, our foods transform us, while our eating, in its turn, affects the wider earthly environment. In Eating in Theory Annemarie Mol takes inspiration from these transformative entanglements to rethink what it is to be human. Drawing on fieldwork at food conferences, research labs, health care facilities, restaurants, and her own kitchen table, Mol reassesses the work of authors such as Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Hans Jonas, and Emmanuel Levinas. They celebrated the allegedly unique capability of humans to rise above their immediate bodily needs. Mol, by contrast, appreciates that as humans we share our fleshy substance with other living beings, whom we cultivate, cut into pieces, transport, prepare, and incorporate-and to whom we leave our excesses. This has far-reaching philosophical consequences. Taking human eating seriously suggests a reappraisal of being as transformative, knowing as entangling, doing as dispersed, and relating as a matter of inescapable dependence.
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    Political legitimacy (2019)
    New York : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479869206
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 393 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: NOMOS : Yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy 61
    DDC: 320.011
    RVK:
    LB 48000
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    Keywords: Legitimität ; Souveränität ; Konferenzschrift 2017
    Abstract: Essays on the political, legal, and philosophical dimensions of political legitimacy.Scholars, journalists, and politicians today worry that the world’s democracies are facing a crisis of legitimacy. Although there are key challenges facing democracy—including concerns about electoral interference, adherence to the rule of law, and the freedom of the press—it is not clear that these difficulties threaten political legitimacy. Such ambiguity derives in part from the contested nature of the concept of legitimacy, and from disagreements over how to measure it. This volume reflects the cutting edge of responses to these perennial questions, drawing, in the distinctive NOMOS fashion, from political science, philosophy, and law. Contributors address fundamental philosophical questions such as the nature of public reasons of authority, as well as urgent concerns about contemporary democracy, including whether “animus” matters for the legitimacy of President Trump’s travel ban, barring entry for nationals from six Muslim-majority nations, and the effect of fundamental transitions within the moral economy, such as the decline of labor unions. Featuring twelve essays from leading scholars, Political Legitimacy is an important and timely addition to the NOMOS series.
    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479888696.001.0001
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    Restating Orientalism : A Critique of Modern Knowledge (2018)
    New York, NY : Columbia University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780231547383
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 950
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    EC 1580
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    Keywords: Said, Edward W. ; Said, Edward W. ; Erkenntnistheorie ; Machtstruktur ; Orientalismus ; Wissensproduktion
    Abstract: Since Edward Said’s foundational work, Orientalism has been singled out for critique as the quintessential example of Western intellectuals’ collaboration with oppression. Controversies over the imbrications of knowledge and power and the complicity of Orientalism in the larger project of colonialism have been waged among generations of scholars. But has Orientalism come to stand in for all of the sins of European modernity, at the cost of neglecting the complicity of the rest of the academic disciplines?In this landmark theoretical investigation, Wael B. Hallaq reevaluates and deepens the critique of Orientalism in order to deploy it for rethinking the foundations of the modern project. Refusing to isolate or scapegoat Orientalism, Restating Orientalism extends the critique to other fields, from law, philosophy, and scientific inquiry to core ideas of academic thought such as sovereignty and the self. Hallaq traces their involvement in colonialism, mass annihilation, and systematic destruction of the natural world, interrogating and historicizing the set of causes that permitted modernity to wed knowledge to power. Restating Orientalism offers a bold rethinking of the theory of the author, the concept of sovereignty, and the place of the secular Western self in the modern project, reopening the problem of power and knowledge to an ethical critique and ultimately theorizing an exit from modernity’s predicaments. A remarkably ambitious attempt to overturn the foundations of a wide range of academic disciplines while also drawing on the best they have to offer, Restating Orientalism exposes the depth of academia’s lethal complicity in modern forms of capitalism, colonialism, and hegemonic power.
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    DOI: 10.7312/hall18762
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    Philosophy of Globalization (2018)
    Berlin : De Gruyter | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9783110492415
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (480 p.)
    DDC: 303.48/201
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    Keywords: Globalisierung ; Soziale Verantwortung ; Wirtschaftsethik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Not so long ago, it seemed the intellectual positions on globalization were clear, with advocates and opponents making their respective cases in decidedly contrasting terms. Recently, however, the fronts have shifted dramatically. The aim of this publication is to contribute philosophical depth to the debates on globalization conducted within various academic fields – principally by working out its normative dimensions. The interdisciplinary nature of this book’s contributors also serves to scientifically ground the ethical-philosophical discourse on global responsibility. Though by no means exhaustive, the expansive scope of the works herein encompasses such other topics as the altering consciousness of space and time, and the phenomenon of globalization as a discourse, as an ideology and as a symbolic form.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9783110492415
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    Foucault's Orient : The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan (2017)
    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781785336232
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (292 p.)
    DDC: 128
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    Keywords: Foucault, Michel ; Orientbild ; Philosophische Anthropologie ; Tunesien ; Japan
    Abstract: Foucault lived in Tunisia for two years and travelled to Japan and Iran more than once. Yet throughout his critical scholarship, he insisted that the cultures of the "Orient" constitute the "limit" of Western rationality. Using archival research supplemented by interviews with key scholars in Tunisia, Japan and France, this book examines the philosophical sources, evolution as well as contradictions of Foucault's experience with non-Western cultures.  Beyond tracing Foucault's journey into the world of otherness, the book reveals the personal, political as well as methodological effects of a radical conception of cultural difference that extolled the local over the cosmopolitan.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781785336232
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    How to Choose a Leader : Machiavelli's Advice to Citizens (2016)
    Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781400880409
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 303.3/4
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    Abstract: One of the greatest political advisers of all time, Niccolò Machiavelli thought long and hard about how citizens could identify great leaders—ones capable of defending and enhancing the liberty, honor, and prosperity of their countries. Drawing on the full range of the Florentine's writings, acclaimed Machiavelli biographer Maurizio Viroli gathers and interprets Machiavelli's timeless wisdom about choosing leaders. The brief and engaging result is a new kind of Prince—one addressed to citizens rather than rulers and designed to make you a better voter. Demolishing popular misconceptions that Machiavelli is a cynical realist, the book shows that he believes republics can't survive, let alone thrive, without leaders who are virtuous as well as effective. Among much other valuable advice, Machiavelli says that voters should pick leaders who put the common good above narrower interests and who make fighting corruption a priority, and he explains why the best way to recognize true leaders is to carefully examine their past actions and words. On display throughout are the special insights that Machiavelli gained from long, direct knowledge of real political life, the study of history, and reflection on the great political thinkers of antiquity.Recognizing the difference between great and mediocre political leaders is difficult but not at all impossible—with Machiavelli's help. So do your country a favor. Read this book, then vote like Machiavelli would.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9781400880409
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    Assemblage Theory (2016)
    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781474413640
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (208 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    Series Statement: Speculative Realism : SPRE
    DDC: 194
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    Keywords: Deleuze, Gilles ; Realismus ; Assemblage
    Abstract: Clarifies and systematises the concepts and presuppositions behind the influential new field of assemblage theoryRead and download the preface, by series editor Graham Harman, and the Introduction to Assemblage Theory for free nowManuel DeLanda provides the first detailed overview of the assemblage theory found in germ in Deleuze and Guattari's writings. Through a series of case studies DeLanda shows how the concept can be applied to economic, linguistic and military history as well as to metaphysics, science and mathematics.DeLanda then presents the real power of assemblage theory by advancing it beyond its original formulation - allowing for the integration of communities, institutional organisations, cities and urban regions. And he challenges Marxist orthodoxy with a Leftist politics of assemblages.Key FeaturesCritically connects DeLanda with more recent theoretical turns in speculative realismMakes sense of the fragmentary discussions of assemblage theory in the work of Deleuze and GuattariOpens up assemblage theory to sociology, linguistics, military organisations and science so that future researchers can rigorously deploy the concept in their own fields"...
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    The China Model : Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy (2016)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781400883486
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.20951
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    Abstract: Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and “bad” authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades, China has evolved a political system that can best be described as “political meritocracy.” The China Model seeks to understand the ideals and the reality of this unique political system. How do the ideals of political meritocracy set the standard for evaluating political progress (and regress) in China? How can China avoid the disadvantages of political meritocracy? And how can political meritocracy best be combined with democracy? Daniel Bell answers these questions and more.Opening with a critique of “one person, one vote” as a way of choosing top leaders, Bell argues that Chinese-style political meritocracy can help to remedy the key flaws of electoral democracy. He discusses the advantages and pitfalls of political meritocracy, distinguishes between different ways of combining meritocracy and democracy, and argues that China has evolved a model of democratic meritocracy that is morally desirable and politically stable. Bell summarizes and evaluates the “China model”—meritocracy at the top, experimentation in the middle, and democracy at the bottom—and its implications for the rest of the world.A timely and original book that will stir up interest and debate, The China Model looks at a political system that not only has had a long history in China, but could prove to be the most important political development of the twenty-first century.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9781400883486
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    Our Compelling Interests : The Value of Diversity for Democracy and a Prosperous Society (2016)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781400881260
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Our Compelling Interests
    DDC: 306.20973
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    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: It is clear that in our society today, issues of diversity and social cohesion remain deeply unresolved and can lead to crisis and instability. The major demographic changes taking place in America make discussions about such issues all the more imperative. Our Compelling Interests engages this conversation and demonstrates that diversity is an essential strength that gives nations a competitive edge. This inaugural volume of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Our Compelling Interests series illustrates that a diverse population offers our communities a prescription for thriving now and in the future. This landmark essay collection begins with a powerful introduction situating the demographic transitions reshaping American life, and the contributors present a broad-ranging look at the value of diversity to democracy and civil society. They explore the paradoxes of diversity and inequality in the fifty years following the civil rights legislation of the 1960s, and they review the ideals that have governed our thinking about social cohesion—such as assimilation, integration, and multiculturalism—before delving into the new ideal of social connectedness. The book also examines the demographics of the American labor force and its implications for college enrollment, graduation, the ability to secure a job, business outcomes, and the economy. Contributors include Danielle Allen, Nancy Cantor, Anthony Carnevale, William Frey, Earl Lewis, Nicole Smith, Thomas Sugrue, and Marta Tienda. Commentary is provided by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Patricia Gurin, and Ira Katznelson.At a time when American society is swiftly being transformed, Our Compelling Interests sheds light on how our differences will only become more critical to our collective success.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9781400881260
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    Durkheim, the Durkheimians, and the Arts (2013)
    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780857459183
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 p.)
    Series Statement: Publications of the Durkheim Press
    DDC: 306.4/7
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    Keywords: Durkheim, Émile ; Kunst ; Wissenschaftliche Schule ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Using a broad definition of the Durkheimian tradition, this book offers the first systematic attempt to explore the Durkheimians' engagement with art. It focuses on both Durkheim and his contemporaries as well as later thinkers influenced by his work. The first five chapters consider Durkheim's own exploration of art; the remaining six look at other Durkheimian thinkers, including Marcel Mauss, Henri Hubert, Maurice Halbwachs, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Michel Leiris, and Georges Bataille. The contributors-scholars from a range of theoretical orientations and disciplinary perspectives-are known for having already produced significant contributions to the study of Durkheim. This book will interest not only scholars of Durkheim and his tradition but also those concerned with aesthetic theory and the sociology and history of art.
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    Durkheim in Dialogue : A Centenary Celebration of ‹i›The Elementary Forms of Religious Life‹/i› (2013)
    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    Details
    ISBN: 9781782380221
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (280 p.)
    Series Statement: Methodology & History in Anthropology 27
    DDC: 306.6
    RVK:
    MQ 3151
    RVK:
    CI 5637
    Keywords: Durkheim, Émile ; Religiosität ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: One hundred years after the publication of the great sociological treatise, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, this new volume shows how aptly Durkheim¹s theories still resonate with the study of contemporary and historical religious societies. The volume applies the Durkheimian model to multiple cases, probing its resilience, wondering where it might be tweaked, and asking which aspects have best stood the test of time. A dialogue between theory and ethnography, this book shows how Durkheimian sociology has become a mainstay of social thought and theory, pointing to multiple ways in which Durkheim¹s work on religion remains relevant to our thinking about culture.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781782380221
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782380221
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782380221
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    Semiotics, Self, and Society (1989)
    Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    Details
    ISBN: 9783110859225
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (311p.)
    Edition: [2015]
    Series Statement: Approaches to Semiotics [AS] 84
    DDC: 302.2
    RVK:
    CC 6600
    RVK:
    ER 730
    RVK:
    ER 740
    RVK:
    CR 1000
    RVK:
    CC 6600
    RVK:
    ER 730
    RVK:
    ER 740
    RVK:
    CR 1000
    Keywords: Selbst ; Semiotik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    DOI: 10.1515/9783110859225
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110859225
    URL: Cover
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    Writing Culture (1986)
    Berkeley, CA : University of California Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    Details
    ISBN: 9780520946286
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (336 p.)
    Edition: 25th Anniversary Edition, Reprint 2020
    Edition: 2020
    DDC: 305.8
    RVK:
    CC 8200
    RVK:
    EC 2500
    RVK:
    LB 15000
    RVK:
    LB 19000
    RVK:
    LB 30000
    RVK:
    LB 32000
    RVK:
    MS 9250
    Keywords: Sozialanthropologie ; Kulturanthropologie ; Methodologie ; Ethnologie ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Kulturwissenschaften ; Sozialgeschichte ; Santa Fe 〈NM, 1984〉
    DOI: 10.1525/9780520946286
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520946286
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780520946286
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