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Magical criticism : the recourse of savage philosophy / Christopher Bracken.

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LIBRA B840 .B67 2007
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Bracken, Christopher.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Semiotics.
Magical thinking.
Philosophy and civilization.
Ethnophilosophy--History.
Ethnophilosophy.
History.
Physical Description:
ix, 266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Contents:
Introduction : what are savages for?
Discourse is now
The new barbarism
The mana type
Commodity totemism
Allegories of the sun, specters of excess
Coda : the Solaris hypothesis.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-255) and index.
ISBN:
9780226069906
0226069907
9780226069913
0226069915
OCLC:
76897643

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