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Availability:In StockContributor:Agnes Horvath, Arpad SzakolczaiSeries:Contemporary LiminalityPublish date:10/15/2019Pages:224
Languages:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9781138312142ISBN-10:1138312142UPC:9781138312142Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Sociology, AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:9.40 x 6.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.477Product ID:SCWH7SG8H5

This book offers a novel interpretation of contemporary modernity and its permanent liminality by revisiting the classical question of the nature of evil through the anthropologically based concept of the 'trickster': a paradoxical figure who is considered at once an outcast and a cultural hero.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9781138312142ISBN-10:1138312142UPC:9781138312142Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Sociology, AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:9.40 x 6.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.477Product ID:SCWH7SG8H5

Agnes Horvath is a founding and chief editor of International Political Anthropology. She taught in Hungary, Ireland and Italy, and was affiliate visiting scholar and supervisor at Cambridge University. She is the author of Modernism and Charisma, the co-author of The Dissolution of Communist Power: The Case of Hungary and Walking into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking, and the co-editor of Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality, Walling, Boundaries and Liminality and Divinization and Technology: The Political Anthropology of the Subversive.

Arpad Szakolczai is professor of sociology at University College Cork, Ireland and previously taught social theory at the European University Institute in Florence. He is the author of Max Weber and Michel Foucault: Parallel Life-Works, Reflexive Historical Sociology, Sociology, Religion and Grace: A Quest for the Renaissance, The Genesis of Modernity, Comedy and the Public Sphere, Novels and the Sociology of the Contemporary, and Permanent Liminality and Modernity, and the co-author of Walking into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking and From Anthropology to Social Theory: Rethinking the Social Sciences.


Publisher: Routledge

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