Social Ghosts and the Dead of World History - Ghost Theory

This book looks at the phantasms and spirits of classical social science and philosophy, including Hegel's 'World-Spirit', Weber's 'Verstehen' and Marx's phantasms, exploring the relationships and interactions between those spirits and materiality across five broad themes.

List of contents

1. Germinal: Social Ghosts and the Dead of World History 2. Ghost theory: On Shape-Shifting 3. Lithic Empires: On the Dead of World Prehistory 4. Stone Being: Statues and the Phenomenology of Spirits 5. Wooden Souls: Heads, Beings and the Organic World 6. On Daimonia: Life, Death and Being 7. Abyssal Modernities: From the Interior of Being 8. Coda: On the Dead of Worlds to Come

About the author

Martyn Hudson is an Assistant Professor in Art and Design History at Northumbria University and the author of nine books on critical theory, history and visual culture. He is the editor of the 'Visual Modernities' series at Routledge.

Summary

This book looks at the phantasms and spirits of classical social science and philosophy, including Hegel’s ‘World-Spirit’, Weber’s ‘Verstehen’ and Marx’s phantasms, exploring the relationships and interactions between those spirits and materiality across five broad themes.

Product details

• Authors: Martyn Hudson, Martyn (Northumbria University Hudson, Hudson Martyn
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.04.2023
• EAN: 9781032446936
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3244693-6
• No. of pages: 142
• Series: Visual Modernities
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Cultural Studies, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Archaeology by period / region, Prehistoric archaeology, Art forms, The Arts: art forms, Archaeological Theory