The life and work of Ernesto de Martino Italian perspectives on apocalypse and rebirth in the modern study of religion
In The Life and Work of Ernesto de Martino , Flavio A. Geisshuesler offers a comprehensive study of one of Italy's most colorful historians of religions. The book inserts de Martino's dramatic life trajectory within the intellectual climate and the socio-political context of his age in ord...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts :
Brill
2021
[2021] |
Colección: | Numen Book Series ;
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009626650906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Let the Earth Shake: From Crisis-Born Hero to Master of Civilizational Crisis
- Chapter 1 The Decline of the West (1908-1929): The Rupture of Time in Modernity and the Rise of the Prophets of Crisis
- 1 Student Years under Fascism and the Guidance of a Spiritual Prophet of Crisis
- 2 The Arrow of Progress and the Unification of a Ruptured Modernity in Need of Orientation
- 3 The Crisis of the First World War and the Rise of Oswald Spengler's Cultural Pessimism
- Chapter 2 Civil Religion (1929-1335): The Return to Something New as Modernist Alternative to Mircea Eliade's Politics of Nostalgia
- 1 Rudolf Otto and the Return to Religion as Experience
- 2 Mircea Eliade's Politics of Nostalgia and the Rebirth of Western Civilization
- 3 An Alternative to the Politics of Nostalgia: Modernism and the Dialectic Conception of Palingenesis as the Return to Something New
- 4 Questioning the Rupture of Modernity from a Dialectical Perspective: The Self-Secularization of Religion and the Self-Mythicization of Politics
- Chapter 3 The Crisis of the Presence (1936-1944): The Antifascist Sacralization of Politics and the Rise of Magical Thinking during WWII
- 1 The Antifascist Turn in the Laterza Circle and the Continued Sacralization of Politics
- 2 The Crisis of the Presence: Extreme States of Consciousness in Primitive Societies and the Shamanizing of Hitler in Europe
- 3 The Dark Side of the Soul Resurfaces in Religious Studies: The Split between the Insider-Phenomenological and the Outsider-Explanatory Approaches
- 4 The Savior of the European Sciences: The Redemption of the Presence and the Unifying Power of Magic
- Chapter 4 De-historification (1944-1948): Shamanic Magic and the Dialectic Movement between Mircea Eliade and Claude Lévi-Strauss.
- 1 The Integration of Eliade and Lévi-Strauss: Sacred Poles and Songs of Labor as Forms of De-historification
- 2 Historicizing the De-historifying Tendencies of the Modern Magicians in the Study of Religion
- 3 The Magic Christ of Science: Heroic Historicism and the Active Provocation of Crisis in Pursuit of Critical Thinking
- Chapter 5 Critical Ethnocentrism (1949-1959): The Southern Period and the Articulation of a Post-colonial Anthropology alongside Claude Lévi-Strauss
- 1 Notoriety without Success: Controversies with Croce and Intellectual Isolation within the Roman School of History of Religions
- 2 Shaking Earth and Intellectual Transitions: Political Militancy and Ethnographic Journeys in the Italian South
- 3 The Rise of the Cultural-Discursive Paradigm and Self-Reflexive Anthropology
- 4 Tristes Tropiques, Critical Ethnocentrism, and the Anticipation of the Cultural-Discursive Paradigm
- 4.1 Anticipating Said's Orientalism: Anthropology of Guilt and the Ethnographic Encounter
- 4.2 Anticipating Fabian's Time and Other: Anthropology as Self-Reflexivity and Introspection
- 4.3 Anticipating Smith's Imagining Religion: Anthropology as the Study of Culture and the Critical Questioning of Our Categories
- 4.4 Anticipating the Writing Culture Movement: Anthropology and the Language of the People
- Chapter 6 Loyalty to the Cultural Homeland (1960-1965): Critical Ethnocentrism as an Anticipatory Defense against Relativism and Interpretative Anthropology
- 1 A Critic of Interpretative Anthropology Ante Litteram: The Anthropologist of Guilt Becomes a Philosopher of the Apocalypse of Relativism
- 2 Moving with and beyond Antonio Gramsci: From Progressive Folklore to a More Successful Colonialization.
- 3 Nostalgia for the Lost Homeland: An Anticipatory Analysis of the Cultural Turn and the Surprising Parallels between Cultural Relativism and the Insider-Phenomenological Approach
- 4 Science Is Not for the Stateless: An Anticipatory Critique of the Cultural Turn Based on the Ethnocentric Imperative
- Chapter 7 The Ethos of Transcendence (1965-1977): Decision and the Moral Imperative as Anticipatory Response to Postmodernism
- 1 The Philosophical Afterlife of The End of the World: Enzo Paci's Existentialist Historicism and the Moral Imperative Grounded in the Contemporaneity of History
- 2 Impossible Nostalgia and the Anticipatory Analysis of the Discursive Turn
- 3 The Ethos of Transcendence of Life in Value as an Anticipatory Critique of the Discursive Turn
- 3.1 Finding Value in Concreteness, Practice, and Morality Instead of Meaning, Interpretation, and Play
- 3.2 The Ethos of Transcendence as Dialectical Process: Between Loyalty to the Past and New Valorization in the Present
- Conclusion: Let the Earth Shake (Again) or Why Rebirth Must Lead to a New Crisis
- References
- Index.