LIBROS DEL AUTOR: arpad szakolczai

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  • Political Anthropology as Method
    Arpad Szakolczai
    This book explores considerations of method in the field of political anthropology, contending that this constitutes a distinct approach within the broader area of the human, social and political sciences. Faithful to the basic guiding ideas of anthropology, it nonetheless challenges and rejects the pretended stance of scientific neutrality and advances a position that engages ...
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    70,54 €

  • Post-Truth Society
    Arpad Szakolczai
    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. ...
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    74,64 €

  • The Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil
    Agnes Horvath / Arpad Szakolczai
    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. ...
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    80,12 €

  • Novels and the Sociology of the Contemporary
    Arpad Szakolczai
    This book substantiates two claims. The modern world is the outcome of social, cultural and spiritual processes, among which a prime role was played by theatre. A special access for studying this theatricalized world is offered by novels. The theatre effectively transformed the world, and novels effectively analyze this 'theatricalized' reality. ...
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    79,36 €

  • Permanent Liminality and Modernity
    Arpad Szakolczai
    This book offers a comprehensive sociological study of the nature and dynamics of the modern world, through the use of a series of anthropological concepts, including the trickster, schismogenesis, imitation and liminality. ...
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    87,96 €

  • Walking into the Void
    Agnes Horvath / Arpad Szakolczai
    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 increasi...
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    77,39 €

  • Comedy and the Public Sphere
    Arpad Szakolczai
    The book aims at reframing the discussion on the 'public sphere,' usually understood as the place where the public opinion is formed, through rational discussion. The aim of this book is to give an account of this rationality, and its serious shortcomings, examining the role of the media and the confusing of public roles and personal identity. It focuses in particular on the ro...
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    76,70 €

  • Max Weber and Michel Foucault
    Arpad Szakolczai
    This book is the first to jointly analyse Weber and Foucault and to make effective links between their lives and works. It will be valuable reading to students and teachers of sociology and philosophy. ...
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    97,18 €

  • The Genesis of Modernity
    Arpad Szakolczai
    This book reconstructs the ideas of three of the most important theorists of the Twentieth Century, Max Weber, Michel Foucault and Eric Voegelin. Their ideas on the distant roots and sources of modernity are discussed. ...
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    87,86 €

  • Sociology, Religion and Grace
    Arpad Szakolczai
    This book offers a sociological analysis of the Renaissance, focusing on the concept of grace, and the unity that exists between its various meanings: theological, anthropological (gift-giving, Mauss; and sociability, Simmel), and aesthetical (beauty and gracefulness).Since the seminal work of Max Weber rooted capitalism, and thus the modern world, in the Protestant ethic, inte...
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    52,17 €

  • Reflexive Historical Sociology
    Arpad Szakolczai
    This book reconstructs and brings together the work of a number of social and political theorists in order to gain new insight on the emergence and character of modern Western society. It examines the intersection point of social theory and historical sociology in a new theoretical approach called 'reflexive historical sociology'. There is analysis of the works of Max Weber, M...
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    87,87 €