Metaphysical Community

The Interplay of the Senses and the Intellect

Autor: Gregory Urban

Jazyk:

Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: University of Texas Press

Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele

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Starting with the post-structuralist idea that truth systems are lodged in discourse, and that disco...

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Autor

Gregory Urban

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

1995

Stránek

304

EAN

9780292785298

ISBN

0292785291

Enbook ID

04874067

Vydavatel

University of Texas Press

Hmotnost

476

Rozměry

156 x 231 x 20

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Starting with the post-structuralist idea that truth systems are lodged in discourse, and that discourse varies from society to society, Greg Urban seeks to discover the nature and extent of that variation. His journey to an Amerindian society in which dreams are more prominent than everyday aspects of the sensible world leads him to radically reformulate one of the main problematics of Western thought: the relationship between our sensations of the world and the understandings we form of them. "Metaphysical Community" proposes that this dichotomy comes from the interplay between two sides of discourse - its intelligible side as a carrier of meanings, and its sensible side as thing-in-the-world that must be replicated. This insight leads to the heart of the book - the exploration of the uneasy tension that binds experience and understanding, phenomena and noumena. Urban challenges basic assumptions that underlie social and cultural anthropology and much of the social sciences and humanities. His provocative insights will be of interest to all those concerned with anthropology, cultural studies, literary criticism, the sociology and politics of culture, and philosophy. Greg Urban is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and author of "A Discourse-Centered Approach to Culture: Native South American Myths and Rituals".

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