ISBN:
0-415-25862-6
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0-415-25863-4
Language:
English
Pages:
XV, 283 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Edition:
First published
Keywords:
Macht Individualisierung
;
Individuum
;
Individuum und Gesellschaft
;
Anthropologie, philosophische
;
Soziale Organisation
;
Nietzsche, Friedrich [Leben und Werk]
;
Glaser, Ben [Leben und Werk]
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Silberstein, Rachel [Leben und Werk]
;
Spencer, Stanley [Leben und Werk]
;
Levi, Primo [Leben und Werk]
Abstract:
Power is conventionally regarded as being held by social institutions. We are taught to believe that it is these social structures that determine the environment and circumstances of individual lives. In I Am Dynamite, the anthropologist Nigel Rappaport argues for a different view. Focusing on the lives and works of the writer and Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi, refugee and engineer Ben Glaser, Israeli ceramicist and immigrant Rachel Siblerstein, artist Stanley Spencer, and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, he shows how we can have the capacity and inclination to formulate 'life projects'. It is in the pursuit of these life projects, that is, making our life our work, that we can avoid the structures of ideology and institution.
Description / Table of Contents:
Foreword / Michael Jackson -- pt. I. Propositions -- 1. Preliminary statements -- 2. The life of power: an existential framework -- pt. II. Illustrations -- 3. Friedrich Nietzsche and the wilfulness of power-quanta -- 4. Ben Glaser and the composing of 'Cosmos 1' and 'Cosmos 2' -- 5. Rachel Silberstein and the relentless road to personal completion -- 6. Stanley Spencer and the visionary metaphysic of love -- pt. III. Discussions -- 7. The power of any body-in-its-environment -- 8. Total institutions and the violence of society: the death of power?
