ISBN:
0199915261
,
019991527X
,
0199915288
,
0199980217
,
9780199915262
,
9780199915279
,
9780199915286
,
9780199980215
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xii, 245 pages)
,
illustrations
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Seligman, Adam B , 1954-. Rethinking pluralism
DDC:
390
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions
;
Experience
;
Pluralism
;
Ritual
;
Uncertainty
;
Pluralism
;
Uncertainty
;
Ritual
;
Experience
;
Pluralistische Gesellschaft
;
Ambiguität
;
Pluralistische Gesellschaft
;
Ambiguität
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
'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
Note:
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