The Buddha in Sri Lanka: Histories and Stories, Gananath Obeyesekere

Автор: Obeyesekere, Gananath (emeritus Professor Of Anthropology At Princeton University, Usa)
Название: Buddha in sri lanka
ISBN: 1138713627 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138713628
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book examines culture, religion and polity in the context of Buddhism. It offers a restorative interpretation of Buddhist myths in contrast to the perspective involving deconstruction. It also deals with oral traditions and stories, the religious pantheon, philosophy, emotions, reform movements, identity and culture, and issues of modernity.

Автор: Sumit K. Mandal
Название: Becoming Arab: Creole Histories and Modern Identity in the Malay World
ISBN: 1316647498 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316647493
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: For all readers seeking a fresh perspective on how Asians negotiated racial categorisation and control under European colonial rule. Asians - Arabs in this instance - did not acquiesce but drew on a history of integration in the Malay world, connections to the Ottoman Empire, and modern organisations and schools.

Автор: Jonathan Eburne
Название: Outsider Theory: Intellectual Histories of Questionable Ideas
ISBN: 1517905540 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781517905545
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: A vital and timely reminder that modern life owes as much to outlandish thinking as to dominant ideologies What do the Nag Hammadi library, Dan Brown\u2019s The Da Vinci Code, speculative feminist historiography, Marcus Garvey\u2019s finances, and maps drawn by asylum patients have in common? Jonathan P. Eburne explores this question as never before in Outsider Theory, a timely book about outlandish ideas. Eburne brings readers on an adventure in intellectual history that stresses the urgency of taking seriously—especially in an era of fake news—ideas that might otherwise be discarded or regarded as errant, unfashionable, or even unreasonable. Examining the role of such thinking in contemporary intellectual history, Eburne challenges the categorical demarcation of good ideas from flawed, wild, or bad ones, addressing the surprising extent to which speculative inquiry extends beyond the work of professional intellectuals to include that of nonprofessionals as well, whether amateurs, unfashionable observers, or the clinically insane. Considering the work of a variety of such figures—from popular occult writers and gnostics to so-called outsider artists and pseudoscientists—Eburne argues that an understanding of its circulation and recirculation is indispensable to the history of ideas. He devotes close attention to ideas and texts usually omitted from or marginalized within orthodox histories of literary modernism, critical theory, and continental philosophy, yet which have long garnered the critical attention of specialists in religion, science studies, critical race theory, and the history of the occult. In doing so he not only sheds new light on a fascinating body of creative thought but also proposes new approaches for situating contemporary humanities scholarship within the history of ideas. However important it might be to protect ourselves from \u201cbad\u201d ideas, Outsider Theory shows how crucial it is for us to know how and why such ideas have left their impression on modern-day thinking and continue to shape its evolution.