Magical criticism : the recourse of savage philosophy /
During the Enlightenment, Western scholars racialized ideas, deeming knowledge based on reality superior to that based on ideality. Scholars labeled inquiries into ideality, such as animism and soul-migration,?savage philosophy,? a clear indicator of the racism motivating the distinction between the...
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Table of 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.