Ritual and Its Consequences An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity

Name: Ritual and Its Consequences An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity
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ISBN: 9780195336016

ISBN-10: 0195336011

ISBN-13: 9780195336016

Edition: 2008

Authors: Adam B. Seligman, Robert P. Weller, Michael J. Puett, Bennett Simon

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This pioneering, interdisciplinary work shows how rituals allow us to live in a perennially imperfect world. Drawing on a variety of cultural settings, the authors utilize psychoanalytic and anthropological perspectives to describe how ritual--like play--creates "as if" worlds, rooted in the imaginative capacity of the human mind to create a subjunctive universe. The ability to cross between imagined worlds is central to the human capacity for empathy. Ritual, they claim, defines the boundaries of these imagined worlds, including those of empathy and other realms of human creativity, such as music, architecture and literature. The authors juxtapose this ritual orientation to a "sincere"…

Book details

Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/24/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



About the Authors


Introduction



Ritual and the Subjunctive



Ambiguity, Ambivalence, and Boundaries



Ritual, Play, and Boundaries



Ritual and Sincerity



Movements of Ritual and Sincerity


Afterword


Notes


References


Index