This book offers a political anthropological discussion of our contemporary situation regarding sceptical attitudes towards scientific expertise and authority, and the increasing role of power and politics, using an exploration of the "fool" or "gnostic fool" as a type.
This book offers a political anthropological discussion of our contemporary situation regarding sceptical attitudes towards scientific expertise and authority, and the increasing role of power and politics, using an exploration of the "fool" or "gnostic fool" as a type.
Agnes Horvath is a political anthropologist and sociologist, founding editor of International Political Anthropology, and its chief editor 2012-22.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: 'The "what" of a Thing' 1. The Prince of Lies: Fools and Philo 2. Impulsive Daydreams: Time and Space Suspension 3. Remodelled fooling Trickster: Fusing occult into Philosophy and Religion 4. Barbarian recklessness - foreign fables 5. Incorporation into the One and the birth of the Foolish Evil 6. The One is Running Over the Top: Medieval Foolery 7. Ecclesia and the elimination of individual household 8. Mystic union into public entities: priestly kingship in the people of God 9. No difference between the wise and the fool: Return to the One 10. Gnostic Fools running amok 11. Fools' Triumph: the recurrent idea of the One Conclusion
Introduction: 'The "what" of a Thing' 1. The Prince of Lies: Fools and Philo 2. Impulsive Daydreams: Time and Space Suspension 3. Remodelled fooling Trickster: Fusing occult into Philosophy and Religion 4. Barbarian recklessness - foreign fables 5. Incorporation into the One and the birth of the Foolish Evil 6. The One is Running Over the Top: Medieval Foolery 7. Ecclesia and the elimination of individual household 8. Mystic union into public entities: priestly kingship in the people of God 9. No difference between the wise and the fool: Return to the One 10. Gnostic Fools running amok 11. Fools' Triumph: the recurrent idea of the One Conclusion
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