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THE LOGIC OF INVENTION IBD

HAU
02 / 2019
9780999157053
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Sinopsis

In this long-awaited sequel toáThe Invention of Culture,áRoy Wagner tackles the logic and motives that underlie cultural invention. Could there be a single, logical factor that makes the invention of the distinction between self and other possible, much as specific human genes allow for language?áWagner explores what he calls 'the reciprocity of perspectives' through a journey between Euro-American bodies of knowledge and his in-depth knowledge of Melanesian modes of thought. This logic grounds variants of the subject/object transformation, as Wagner works through examples such as the figure-ground reversal in Gestalt psychology, LacanâÇÖs theory of the mirror-stage formation of the Ego, and even the self-recursive structure of the aphorism and the joke. Juxtaposing WittgensteinâÇÖs and LeibnizâÇÖs philosophy with Melanesian social logic, Wagner explores the cosmological dimensions of the ways in which different societies develop models of self and the subject/object distinction. The result is a philosophical tour de force by one of anthropologyâÇÖs greatest mavericks.á

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