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The Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil

The Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil

Agnes Horvath / Arpad Szakolczai

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2021
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Sociedad y cultura: general
ISBN:
9781032088105
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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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