Walking into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking

ISBN-13: 9781138214491 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 218 str.

Aagnes Horvaath; Aarpaad Szakolczai

Opis

The first comprehensive historical sociology and political anthropology of walking as a formative and transformative experience, this book employs the genealogical method and the concept of liminality to theorise the links between walking, pilgrimage and rites of passage as liminal experiences, and offers a historical survey of the role played by walking in settled and increasingly massified societies. A fresh perspective on the ills of modernity that retrieves connections with the civilisation of the distant past through one the most important experiences of human beings, this ground-breaking work will appeal to scholars across the social sciences.

Spis treści

Preface, Introduction, Part I Walking into Sense 1 The Experience of Walking 2 The Language and Culture of Walking 3 The Dilemma of Representing the Void: Michel Foucault and Francis Yates Part II The Flourishing and Demise of Walking Culture 4 Chauvet: The Cave of Wonders, or Representation as Transgression 5 Pergouset: The Cave of Monsters, and its Aftermath 6 Natufian Settlement: Technology, Representation, Standing Reserve 7 Göbekli Tepe: Sanctuary as Trickster Bestiary, or the Revival of Transgression 8 Çatalhöyük: The Culmination of Settlement 9 Tassili: Incubating Transformation, Or A Training Ground for The Magi Part III Returns to Walking 10 Walking in Philosophy and Religion 11 Walking in Mountains: The Vocation of Losing Oneself 12 Experiencing Walking Conclusion, Bibliography, Glossary, Index

O autorze

Agnes Horvath is a visiting research fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Moral Foundations of Economy and Society, University College Cork, Ireland. She has a Doctorate in Law (ELTE, Budapest, 1981), an MA in Sociology (University of Economics, Budapest, 1988) and a PhD in Social and Political Sciences (European University Institute, Florence, 2000). Horvath has published books and articles in English, French, Italian and Hungarian, including Modernism and Charisma (Palgrave, 2013), Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality (Berghahn, 2015, with Bjorn Thomassen and Harald Wydra), and The Dissolution of Communist Power: The Case of Hungary (Routledge, 1992, with Arpad Szakolczai). She also edited a special section on ‘The Gravity of Eros in the Contemporary’ in the December 2013 issue of History of Human Sciences, and co-edited a special issue on ‘The Political Anthropology of Ethnic and Religious Minorities’ for Nationalism and Ethnic Politics　(Routledge, March 2017). She is one of the founding editors of the peer-reviewed academic journal International Political Anthropology.

Arpad Szakolczai is Professor of Sociology at University College Cork. His books include La scoperta della società (Carocci, 2003, with Giovanna Procacci) as well as Max Weber and Michel Foucault: Parallel Life-Works (1998), Reflexive Historical Sociology (2000), The Genesis of Modernity (2003), Sociology, Religion and Grace: A Quest for the Renaissance (2007), Novels and the Sociology of the Contemporary (2016), Permanent Liminality and Modernity (2017) and Comedy and the Public Sphere: The Re-birth of Theatre as Comedy and the Genealogy of the Modern Public Arena (2013), all published by Routledge. He has published articles in the American Journal of Sociology, Theory, Culture and Society, Cultural Sociology, Current Sociology, History of the Human Sciences, the European Journal of Social Theory, International Sociology, the British Journal of Political Science, East European Politics and Society, the European Sociological Review, the British Journal of Sociology and International Political Anthropology.