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Social Ghosts and the Dead of World History - Ghost Theory (Hardcover)
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Social Ghosts and the Dead of World History - Ghost Theory (Hardcover)
Series: Visual Modernities
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Social Ghosts and the Dead of World History looks at the global
phenomena of the dead in world history, examining the phantasms and
spirits of classical social science and philosophy. From Hegel’s
‘World-Spirit’ to Max Weber’s ‘Verstehen’ and Marx’s
phantasms, there is a recurring obsession with the ‘spirits’ of
modernity. This book explores the relationships and interactions
between those spirits and materiality in five broad areas: the
nature of the dead in modernity, shape-shifting and mobile souls,
the spirit in accounts of prehistory and archaeology, the
phenomenology of spirits and the relation to statues and stone, and
the nature of spirit as it is manifested in wooden artefacts and
folklore. It offers a counter-modernity to that of classical social
science and philosophy and new ways of thinking about our crises
and catastrophes in social theory and the world and the worlds
beyond this world. Building on the author’s previous work on the
sociology of haunted houses and landscapes, it examines the body
and the individual as the locus of haunting. The book will appeal
to academics in philosophy, history, social theory, anthropology
and cultural studies in its omni-disciplinarity and in its import
for rethinking the histories of social thought.
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