This is the first collection of Franz Steiner's keynote papers
on comparative economics and the classification of labor,
complemented by major unpublished texts on politics, civilization,
and cultural criticism. This enables a complete re-evaluation of
Steiner's thought. His ideas on truth, value, and civilization are
highly critical of Western culture and offer perhaps the earliest
critique of Orientalism in British anthropology. Equally
significant is the inclusion of Steiner's unpublished lectures on
Aristotle and Simmel, the latter probably being the first lecture
series devoted to Simmel's ideas by a British-based anthropologist,
as well as hitherto unedited political writings.
Another side to Steiner's thought is shown by his aphorisms,
often caustic texts and newly translated from the German, as well
as by verse translations of his poems relevant to his scholarship.
These include an extract from his autobiographical poem,
"Conquest," that places his anthropological writings into a
personal and ultimately religious framework.A detailed
introduction, based on new research, provides a thorough study of
Steiner's ideas and establishes the wider intellectual context,
thus rounding off a most remarkable collection of texts by one of
the most remarkable anthropologists of this century.
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