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Author Bracken, Christopher.

Title Magical criticism : the recourse of savage philosophy / Christopher Bracken
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 266 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction : what are savages for? -- Discourse is now -- The new barbarism -- The mana type -- Commodity totemism -- Allegories of the sun, specters of excess -- Coda : the Solaris hypothesis
Summary During the Enlightenment, Western scholars racialized ideas, deeming knowledge based on reality superior to that based on ideality. Scholars labeled inquiries into ideality, such as animism and soul-migration,?savage philosophy,? a clear indicator of the racism motivating the distinction between the real and the ideal. In their view, the savage philosopher mistakes connections between signs for connections between real objects and believes that discourse can have physical effects?in other words, they believe in magic. Christopher Bracken?s Magical Criticism brings the unacknowledged history o
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-255) and index
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Subject Semiotics.
Magical thinking.
Philosophy and civilization.
Ethnophilosophy -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Ethnophilosophy
Magical thinking
Philosophy and civilization
Semiotics
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006038722
ISBN 9780226069920
0226069923