Western Illusion of Human Nature With Reflections on the Long History of Hierarchy, Equality and the Sublimation of Anarchy in the West, and Comparative Notes on Other Conceptions of the Human Condition

Name: Western Illusion of Human Nature With Reflections on the Long History of Hierarchy, Equality and the Sublimation of Anarchy in the West, and Comparative Notes on Other Conceptions of the Human Condition
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ISBN: 9780979405723

ISBN-10: 0979405726

ISBN-13: 9780979405723

Edition: 74th 2008

Authors: Marshall Sahlins, Marshall Sahlins

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Reflecting the decline in college courses on Western Civilization, Marshall Sahlins aims to accelerate the trend by reducing "Western Civ" to about two hours. He cites Nietzsche to the effect that deep issues are like cold baths; one should get into and out of them as quickly as possible. The deep issue here is the ancient Western specter of a presocial and antisocial human nature: a supposedly innate self-interest that is represented in our native folklore as the basis or nemesis of cultural order. Yet these Western notions of nature and culture ignore the one truly universal character of human sociality: namely, symbolically constructed kinship relations. Kinsmen are members of one…

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List price: $12.95
Edition: 74th
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
Publication date: 6/24/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 0.45" wide x 0.74" long x 0.03" tall
Weight: 0.198
Language: English

Marshall Sahlins is the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many books.