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Titre néerlandais : N10774 : Ten tijde van de Spy-mens

Anthropologie --- Antropologie --- Namen (provincie) --- Namur (province) --- Prehistorie --- Préhistoire --- Institut royal des sciences naturelles de Belgique --- Archéologie --- Belgique --- Exposition --- Histoire --- 573.3 --- 573.3 Living and dead matter, their chemical and structural differences --- Living and dead matter, their chemical and structural differences --- Institut royal des sciences naturelles de Belgique. --- Paléolithique --- Néandertaliens

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Robert Musil, known to be a scientific and philosophical thinker, was committed to aesthetics as a process of experimental creation of an ever-shifting reality. Musil wanted, above all, to be a creative writer, and obsessively engaged in almost endless deferral via variations and metaphoric possibilities in his novel project, 'The Man without Qualities.' This lifelong process of writing is embodied in the unfinished novel by a recurring metaphor of self-generating de-centered circle worlds. The present study analyzes this structure with reference to Musil's concepts of the utopia of the Other Condition, Living and Dead Words, Specific and Non-Specific Emotions, Word Magic, and the Still Life. In contrast to most recent studies of Musil, it concludes that the extratemporal metaphoric experience of the Other Condition does not fail, but rather constitutes the formal and ethical core of Musil's novel. The first study to utilize the newly published Klagenfurt Edition of Musil's literary remains (a searchable annotated text), 'The World as Metaphor' offers a close reading of variations and text genesis, shedding light not only on Musil's novel, but also on larger questions about the modernist artist's role and responsibility in consciously re-creating the world. Genese Grill holds a PhD in Germanic Literatures and Languages from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York.

Metaphor in literature. --- Musil, Robert, --- Art. --- Literary Analysis. --- Living and Dead Words. --- Metaphor. --- Modernist Literature. --- Other Condition. --- Philosophy. --- Reality. --- Robert Musil. --- Still Life. --- The Man without Qualities. --- The World as Metaphor in Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities. --- The World as Metaphor. --- Utopia. --- Word Magic. --- artistic creation. --- literary remains. --- metaphoric experience. --- metaphoric possibilities. --- modernist artist. --- modernist literature. --- re-creating the world.

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In a riveting first-person account, Todd Ramón Ochoa explores Palo, a Kongo-inspired "society of affliction" that is poorly understood at the margins of Cuban popular religion. Narrated as an encounter with two teachers of Palo, the book unfolds on the outskirts of Havana as it recounts Ochoa's attempts to assimilate Palo praise of the dead. As he comes to terms with a world in which everyday events and materials are composed of the dead, Ochoa discovers in Palo unexpected resources for understanding the relationship between matter and spirit, for rethinking anthropology's rendering of sorcery, and for representing the play of power in Cuban society. The first fully detailed treatment of the world of Palo, Society of the Dead draws upon recent critiques of Western metaphysics as it reveals what this little known practice can tell us about sensation, transformation, and redemption in the Black Atlantic.

Palo. --- Afro-Caribbean cults --- Death --- Religious aspects. --- Cuba --- Religious life and customs. --- Religion --- anthropology. --- black atlantic. --- comparative religion. --- cuba. --- cuban society. --- cultural anthropologists. --- discussion books. --- ethnic tribal. --- ethnographers. --- ethnography. --- havana. --- kongo. --- living and dead. --- nonfiction. --- palo. --- personal account. --- popular religion. --- praise of the dead. --- quita manaquita. --- religious practices. --- religious rituals. --- religious scholars. --- religious studies. --- sorcery. --- spiritual. --- transformation. --- tribal practices. --- western perspective. --- world religions. --- Afro-Caribbean religions