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The Western Illusion of Human Nature - With Reflections on Long History of Hierarchy, Equality Sublimation

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor Marshall Sahlins (1930-2021) was the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and the author of many books. Klappentext Reflecting the decline in college courses on Western Civilization, Marshall Sahlins aims to accelerate the trend by reducing "Western Civ" to about two hours. He cites Nietzsche to the effect that deep issues are like cold baths; one should get into and out of them as quickly as possible. The deep issue here is the ancient Western specter of a presocial and antisocial human nature: a supposedly innate self-interest that is represented in our native folklore as the basis or nemesis of cultural order. Yet these Western notions of nature and culture ignore the one truly universal character of human sociality: namely, symbolically constructed kinship relations. Kinsmen are members of one another: they live each other's lives and die each other's deaths. But where the existence of the other is thus incorporated in the being of the self, neither interest, nor agency or even experience is an individual fact, let alone an egoistic disposition. -- Description from http://www.press.uchicago.edu (Oct. 24, 2011 Zusammenfassung Reflecting the decline in college courses on Western Civilization! this book aims to accelerate the trend by reducing "Western Civ" to about two hours. It cites Nietzsche to the effect that deep issues are like cold baths; one should get into and out of them as quickly as possible.

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Authors Marshall Sahlins
Publisher University Of Chicago Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 12.08.2008
 
EAN 9780979405723
ISBN 978-0-9794057-2-3
Dimensions 115 mm x 180 mm x 5 mm
Series Paradigm
Subjects Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs
Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology

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