Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah

Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This accessible and illuminating book explores the classical opposition between magic, science and religion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9780521374866
• ISBN-10: 0521374863
• Artikelnr.: 26249038

Inhaltsangabe

List of plates
Foreword Alfred Harris
Acknowledgements
1. Magic, science and religion in Western thought: anthropology's intellectual legacy
2. Anthropology's intellectual legacy (continued)
3. Sir Edward Tylor versus Bronislaw Malinowski: is magic false science or meaningful performance?
4. Malinowski's demarcations and his exposition of the magical art
5. Multiple orderings of reality: the debate initiated by Lévy-Bruhl
6. Rationality, relativism, the translation and commensurability of cultures
7. Modern science and its extensions
Notes
Bibliography
Index.