[PDF] Savage Theory eBook

Author : Pola Oloixarac
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 34,80 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1616957352

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A student at the Buenos Aires School of Philosophy attempts to put her life (academically and romantically) in the service of a professor whose nearly forgotten theories of violence she plans to popularise and radicalise - against his wishes. Meanwhile, a young couple - a documentary filmmaker and a blogger - engage in a series of cerebral and sexual misadventures. In a novel crammed with philosophy, group sex, revolutionary politics and a fighting fish named Yorick, Oloixarac leads her characters and the reader through dazzling and digressive intellectual byways.

Author : Rachel O. Moore
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 20,90 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822323884

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An ambitious and original work which uses early film theory, anthropological insights, and avant--garde film to explore the relation of cinema to ritual healing.

Author : James M. Joyce
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 21,69 MB
Release : 1999-04-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780521641647

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The book also contains a major new discussion of what it means to suppose that some event occurs or that some proposition is true.

Author : Ter Ellingson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 26,84 MB
Release : 2001-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0520226100

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"In this study, the myth of the Noble Savage is a different myth from the one defended or debunked by others over the years. That the concept of the Noble Savage was first invented by Rousseau in the mid-eighteenth century in order to glorify the "natural" life is easily refuted ..."

Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 23,54 MB
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0520282280

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"In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants that has yet to come to a real conclusion. A century later - 1951 - and about a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setting off nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site. It was called a "nuclear testing program" but functioned as a war against the land and people of the Great Basin."--

Author : Ronald L. Meek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,50 MB
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521143295

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Professor Meek traces the prehistory of the four stages theory, with emphasis on the influence of literature about savage societies.

Author : Christopher Bracken
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 31,94 MB
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226069923

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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 real and the ideal. In their view, the savage philosopher mistakes connections between signs for connections between real objects and believes that discourse can have physical effects—in other words, they believe in magic. Christopher Bracken’s Magical Criticism brings the unacknowledged history of this racialization to light and shows how, even as we have rejected ethnocentric notions of “the savage,” they remain active today in everything from attacks on postmodernism to Native American land disputes. Here Bracken reveals that many of the most influential Western thinkers dabbled in savage philosophy, from Marx, Nietzsche, and Proust, to Freud, C. S. Peirce, and Walter Benjamin. For Bracken, this recourse to savage philosophy presents an opportunity to reclaim a magical criticism that can explain the very real effects created by the discourse of historians, anthropologists, philosophers, the media, and governments.

Author : Jairus Victor Grove
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 2019-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781478004844

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Jairus Victor Grove contends that we live in a world made by war. In Savage Ecology he offers an ecological theory of geopolitics that argues that contemporary global crises are better understood when considered within the larger history of international politics. Infusing international relations with the theoretical interventions of fields ranging from new materialism to political theory, Grove shows how political violence is the principal force behind climate change, mass extinction, slavery, genocide, extractive capitalism, and other catastrophes. Grove analyzes a variety of subjects—from improvised explosive devices and drones to artificial intelligence and brain science—to outline how geopolitics is the violent pursuit of a way of living that comes at the expense of others. Pointing out that much of the damage being done to the earth and its inhabitants stems from colonialism, Grove suggests that the Anthropocene may be better described by the term Eurocene. The key to changing the planet's trajectory, Grove proposes, begins by acknowledging both the earth-shaping force of geopolitical violence and the demands apocalypses make for fashioning new ways of living.

Author : Lee D. Baker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,35 MB
Release : 1998-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520920198

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Lee D. Baker explores what racial categories mean to the American public and how these meanings are reinforced by anthropology, popular culture, and the law. Focusing on the period between two landmark Supreme Court decisions—Plessy v. Ferguson (the so-called "separate but equal" doctrine established in 1896) and Brown v. Board of Education (the public school desegregation decision of 1954)—Baker shows how racial categories change over time. Baker paints a vivid picture of the relationships between specific African American and white scholars, who orchestrated a paradigm shift within the social sciences from ideas based on Social Darwinism to those based on cultural relativism. He demonstrates that the greatest impact on the way the law codifies racial differences has been made by organizations such as the NAACP, which skillfully appropriated the new social science to exploit the politics of the Cold War.

Author : Itzhak Gilboa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 11,91 MB
Release : 2009-03-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 052151732X

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This book describes the classical axiomatic theories of decision under uncertainty, as well as critiques thereof and alternative theories. It focuses on the meaning of probability, discussing some definitions and surveying their scope of applicability. The behavioral definition of subjective probability serves as a way to present the classical theories, culminating in Savage's theorem. The limitations of this result as a definition of probability lead to two directions - first, similar behavioral definitions of more general theories, such as non-additive probabilities and multiple priors, and second, cognitive derivations based on case-based techniques.