The Anthropology of the Name

Translation of: Anthropologie du nom. Editions du Seuil, A1996.

About the author

Sylvain Lazarus, a French sociologist, anthropologist, political theorist, and philosopher, is a professor at Universite Paris VIII. He was a founding member of the Union des Communistes de France Marxiste-leniniste and the militant French political organization L'Organisation Politique. Gila Walker is the translator of more than a hundred books and articles from French, including texts by Jacques Derrida, Tzvetan Todorov, Maurice Maeterlinck, and Shmuel Trigano. She divides her time between her homes in New York City and the southwest of France.

Summary

Taking up thought, politics, and the name, this book presents an original doctrine on the nature of politics and the relationship of politics to thought. It is divided into two parts, a general methodology and a series of case studies.

Product details

• Authors: Sylvain Lazarus, Sylvian Lazarus, Sylvian/ Walker Lazarus
• Assisted by: Gila Walker (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.03.2015, delayed
• EAN: 9780857422309
• ISBN: 978-0-85742-230-9
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: French List; French List; The French List - (Seagull titles CHUP)
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education