Post-Truth Society: A Political Anthropology of Trickster Logic

ISBN-13: 9781032126456 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 232 str.

Arpad Szakolczai

Opis

It is widely asserted that we are now living in a post-truth society. What that means, this book argues, is that the contemporary world is thoroughly infested by a trickster logic – an argument advanced by the claim that in modernity liminality has become permanent; or that modern life is patently absurd.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Guides in Trickster Land  1. Hermann Broch: The Spell  2. Lewis Hyde: The Gift and The Trickster  3. Roberto Calasso: The Revolution and its Shipwrecking  4. Michel Serres: The Parasite, from Hermes the Communicator to Don Juan the First Hero of Modernity  5. Sándor Márai: From Krisztina a First Heroine of Modernity to an Encounter with the Russians  6. Colin Thubron: Encounters with Asia  7. Albert Camus: The Absurd Revolt  Part II: Exploring the Regions of Trickster Land  8. Trickster Art: Imitativity, Effect-Mongering vs. Graceful Beauty, and Picasso  9. Trickster Thought: Magi, Mediation and Consciousness, and Sartre  10. Trickster Economy: The Fairground Origins of Infinite Substitutability  11. Trickster Politics: The Trick-Ful Joining of Representation and Election  12. Trickster Society: Welcome to Absurdistan!  Conclusion

O autorze

Arpad Szakolczai is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at University College Cork, Ireland, and was ERC panel member 2011–2018. He is the author of Sociology, Religion and Grace: A Quest for the Renaissance, Comedy and the Public Sphere, Novels and the Sociology of the Contemporary and Permanent Liminality and Modernity, and co-author of Walking into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking, The Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil: Tricksterology and From Anthropology to Social Theory: Rethinking the Social Sciences.