The Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil: Tricksterology

ISBN-13: 9781138312142 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 16 str.

Agnes Horvath; Arpad Szakolczai

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction Part 1: Presenting the Trickster  1. The Trickster in Anthropology: The Figure as seen from the Outside  2. Techniques of Trickster Entrapment: The Nets of Spiders and Magicians  3. Hermes the Trickster and the Kabeiroi: Moving Towards Evil  4. Plato’s Theaetetus: The Sophists and Secret Trickster Knowledge  5. Vedic Tricksterology: Tricking the Body into Self-Destruction  Part 2: Tracking Trickster Traces: Evil Machinations  6. Prehistoric Trickster: Archaic Outlines of Evil  7. The Troglodytes: Evil Protoscientific Methods for Transformation  8. Monsters: Creatures of the Flux  9. Evil Alchemy: The Incommensurable  Concluding Comments: On Methodology in Tricksterology