The Gift of European Thought and the Cost of Living (eBook)

Vassos Argyrou (Autor)

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2013
146 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78238-018-4 (ISBN)

Infos

European thought is often said to be a gift to the rest of the world, but what if there is no gift as such? What if there is only an economy where every giving is also a taking, and every taking is also a giving? This book extends the question of economies by making a case for an "e;economy of thought"e; and a "e;political economy."e; It argues that all thinking and doing presupposes taking, and therefore giving, as the price to pay for taking; or that there exists a "e;cost of living,"e; which renders the idea of free thinking and living untenable. The argument is developed against the Enlightenment directive to think for oneself as the means of becoming autonomous and shows that this "e;light,"e; given to the rest of the world as a gift, turns out to be nothing.

Autor

Vassos Argyrou is Professor of Social Anthropology and Cultural Theory in the School of Social Sciences, University of Hull. His publications include Tradition and Modernity in the Mediterranean: The Wedding as Symbolic Struggle (Cambridge University Press, 1996), Anthropology and the Will to Meaning: A Postcolonial Critique (Pluto Press, 2002), and The Logic of Environmentalism: Anthropology, Ecology and Postcoloniality (Berghahn Books, 2005).

Inhalt

Chapter 1. The Circle

Chapter 2. The Gift of European Thought


The Postcolonial

The Take on/of the Gift

The Power of Giving


Chapter 3. The Economy of Thought


The Phenomenon and the Phantom

‘Think for yourself’

The Socialisation of Thought


Chapter 4. Political Economy


Re-volution

The Hegemonic

Identity Politics


Chapter 5. The Cost of Living


Thinking and not Thinking

Autonomy and Heteronomy

The Cost of Living


References

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2013
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Anthropology (General), Sociology, Political and Economic Anthropology • General Anthropology
• ISBN-10: 1-78238-018-3 / 1782380183
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78238-018-4 / 9781782380184