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Benjamin Peirce ... A memorial collection, by Moses King
Year: 1881 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass

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A comprehensive bibliography of the published works of Charles Sanders Peirce with a bibliography of secondary studies
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ISBN: 0912632844 9780912632841 Year: 1986 Volume: vol *15 Publisher: Bowling Green (Ohio): Bowling Green state university. Philosophy documentation center,

Magical criticism
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ISBN: 9780226069913 0226069915 9780226069906 0226069907 9786611959180 0226069923 1281959189 9780226069920 Year: 2007 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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During the Enlightenment, Western scholars racialized ideas, deeming knowledge based on reality superior to that based on ideality. Scholars labeled inquiries into ideality, such as animism and soul-migration, "savage philosophy," a clear indicator of the racism motivating the distinction between the real and the ideal. In their view, the savage philosopher mistakes connections between signs for connections between real objects and believes that discourse can have physical effects-in other words, they believe in magic. Christopher Bracken's Magical Criticism brings the unacknowledged history of this racialization to light and shows how, even as we have rejected ethnocentric notions of "the savage," they remain active today in everything from attacks on postmodernism to Native American land disputes. Here Bracken reveals that many of the most influential Western thinkers dabbled in savage philosophy, from Marx, Nietzsche, and Proust, to Freud, C. S. Peirce, and Walter Benjamin. For Bracken, this recourse to savage philosophy presents an opportunity to reclaim a magical criticism that can explain the very real effects created by the discourse of historians, anthropologists, philosophers, the media, and governments.

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