The Anthropological Paradox: Niches, Micro-Worlds and Psychic Dissociation

ISBN-13: 9780367348922 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 100 str.

Massimo de Carolis

Opis

This book takes up a general anthropological paradox that has always marked the human animal: bound by its own biological constitution to fend off disorder by drawing the boundaries of an artificial niche and to expose itself to unlimited contingency precisely in order to find a truly suitable environment.

Recenzje

"This study, being both erudite and engagingly written, will likely broaden the intellectual horizons of readers interested in Carnival studies, and—more generically—in the study of rituality at the interface between anthropology, folklore, and history."

Francisco Vaz da Silva, Lisbon University Institute, Lisbon, Portugal

Spis treści

Preface to the english edition; Introduction; Chapter 1: Niches  Chapter 2: Psychopathology of present-day life Chapter 3: The grey area between fact and fiction Chapter 4: Different ways of building a world Chapter 5: Anthropology of pluralism

O autorze

Massimo De Carolis is Full Professor of Political Philosophy and Social Philosophy at the University of Salerno, where he is the head of the Laboratory of Studies and Research on Human Nature. Among his most recent books: La vita nell’epoca della sua riproducibilità tecnica (Life in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility: 2004) and Il rovescio della libertà. Tramonto del neoliberalismo e disagio della civiltà (The Downside of Freedom. The Twilight of Neoliberalism and Civilisation’s Discontent, 2017).