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Sociologie --- Histoire --- Durkheim (emile), sociologue francais, 1858-1917 --- Weber (max) --- Parsons (talcott), sociologue americain, 1902-1979 --- Histoire --- Sociologie --- Histoire --- Durkheim (emile), sociologue francais, 1858-1917 --- Weber (max) --- Parsons (talcott), sociologue americain, 1902-1979 --- Histoire

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Droit et politique --- Europe centrale --- Pensee politique et sociale --- Droit et politique --- Europe centrale --- Pensee politique et sociale --- 20e siecle

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Administration communale --- Continuite --- Europe de l'est --- Municipalites --- Maires --- Hongrie --- Tchecoslovaquie --- Sociologie urbaine --- Continuite --- Europe de l'est --- Municipalites --- Maires --- Hongrie --- Politique et gouvernement --- Tchecoslovaquie --- Politique et gouvernement --- Sociologie urbaine

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Presenting a ground-breaking revitalization of contemporary social theory, this book revisits the rise of the modern world to reopen the dialogue between anthropology and sociology. Using concepts developed by a series of 'maverick' anthropologists who were systematically marginalised as their ideas fell outside the standard academic canon, such as Arnold van Gennep, Marcel Mauss, Paul Radin, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl and Gregory Bateson, the authors argue that such concepts are necessary for understanding better the rise and dynamics of the modern world, including the development of the social sciences, in particular sociology and anthropology. Concepts discussed include liminality, imitation, schismogenesis and trickster, which provide an anthropological 'toolkit' for readers to develop innovative understandings of the underlying power mechanisms of globalized modernity. Aimed at graduate students and researchers, the book is clearly structured. Part I introduces the 'maverick' anthropologists, while Part II applies the maverick tool-kit to revisit the history of sociological thought and the question of modernity.

#SBIB:39A3 --- #SBIB:316.21H00 --- 316.32 --- 316.32 Globale samenlevingsvormen --- Globale samenlevingsvormen --- Antropologie: geschiedenis, theorie, wetenschap (incl. grondleggers van de antropologie als wetenschap) --- Theoretische sociologie: inleidingen op de huidige toestand --- Social sciences --- Anthropology --- Philosophy --- Social sciences - Philosophy --- Anthropology. --- Philosophy. --- Primitive societies --- Human beings --- Social philosophy --- Social theory

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This book offers a new approach to the problem of evil through an examination of the anthropological figure of the trickster'. A lesser known and much more recent term than evil, the authors use the trickster to facilitate a greater understanding of the return of evil in the modern era. Instead of simply opposing good' and evil', the figure of the trickster is used to pursue the trajectories of similarities and quasi-similarities through imitation. After engaging with the trickster as presented in comparative anthropology and mythology, where it appears in tales and legends as a strange, erratic outsider, the authors seek to gain an inside perspective of trickster knowledge through an examination of mythology and the classical world, including both philosophers and poets. The book then goes on to trace the trickster through prehistory, using archaeological evidence to complement the diverse narratives. In this way, and by investigating the knowledge and customs surrounding evil, the authors use the figure of the trickster to provide an unprecedented diagnosis of the contemporary world, where external, mechanical rationality has become taken for granted and even considered as foundational in politics, economics, and technologised science. The authors advance the idea that the modern world, with its global free markets, mass mediatic democracy and technologised science, represents a universalisation of trickster logic. The Political Sociology and Anthropology of the Evil will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of social theory, political anthropology and political sociology, as well as those interested in the ways in which evil can infiltrate reality.

Political sociology