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The Mediterranean as a Source of Cultural Criticism
The essays contained in this volume explore the historical trajectories along which the Mediterranean has been conceptualized as a cultural, religious and economical resource and how these various aspects are intertwined. While staying clear of a merely “imagological” or “representational” point of view, the authors consider the interplay between culturally shaped attributions (for example the longstanding desire for a Mediterranean “Otherness” as expressed in German literature), their testing in empirical encounters, and the effect these encounters produce on both sides. Although focused particularly on 19th and 20th century culture, this volume offers a timely contribution to conceptualising the challenges of the 21st century. The conjunction of both provinciality and universality, the connectivity and fragmentation of the Mediterranean continues to be at the basis of the European matrix of all possible (hi)stories.
Homo Faber
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Truth and Icon
Lucia De Carolis went in search of beauty. Beauty as truth. Above all, this book defends the resolution of beauty in nominalism: beauty cannot be considered a mere mode of expression or of conceiving, devoid of any meaning that refers beyond, of any trace of a distant past. In this sense, Lucia De Carolis inscribes her search for beauty in a very noble part of modern Western thought: the Enlightenment of the Enlightenment, fruit and partner of the "Dialectic of Enlightenment". (Ulrich van Loyen)
Stilles weites Land
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Napoli sepolta
Anche se è stata risparmiata dal disincanto del mondo, Napoli è una città moderna. Ambigua già dal punto di vista geologico, ha sviluppato un‘affinità con il regno di mezzo: transgender e fantasmi, comunità adottive come famiglie, teschi anonimi come antenati. Con il suo reportage scientifico, Ulrich van Loyen si spinge in queste zone liminali cercando di decifrare la matrice della città sulla base del culto dei morti. A guidarlo non è tanto l‘alta cultura europea, per cui Napoli rappresenta un‘inesausta fonte di estraneità, quanto piuttosto l‘osservazione partecipante alla vita delle cosiddette persone semplici. Nei vicoli della Sanità, nelle cripte delle “Anime del Purgatorio”, con i camorristi che si presentano come assistenti sociali, attraverso l‘amicizia con le veggenti che vogliono far parlare i morti e quindi rovesciare il clientelismo politico, appare chiaro, tra le altre cose, che la vita quotidiana rappresenta il segreto più grande, la famiglia un mistero e la città una crisi permanente.
The Life and Work of Ernesto De Martino
The Life and Work of Ernesto de Martino introduces one of the 20th century’s key thinkers in religious studies and demonstrates that the discipline was animated by a tension between the fear of the apocalypse and the desire for civilizational rebirth.
Strände der Vernunft
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The End of the World
The first English translation of a classic work of twentieth-century anthropology and philosophy. A philosopher, historian of religions, and anthropologist, Ernesto de Martino (1908–1965) produced a body of work that prefigured many ideas and concerns that would later come to animate anthropology. In his writing, we can see the roots of ethnopsychiatry and medical anthropology, discussions of reflexivity and the role of the ethnographer, considerations of social inequality and hegemony from a Gramscian perspective, and an anticipation of the discipline’s “existential turn.” We also find an attentiveness to hope and possibility, despite the gloomy title of his posthumously published b...
Norbert Elias’s African Processes of Civilisation
In 1962 Norbert Elias was invited as a temporary professor at the University of Ghana in Legon, Accra. He taught, employed fieldwork, travelled, and met many people in postcolonial Africa. When Elias left Ghana in 1964, he had laid the basic groundwork for a fundamental sociological argument on human societies. The volume on hand is a selection of his unpublished writings based on these experiences. Together they touch upon not only the well-known criticism of Eurocentrism and a developmental perspective but also what could be considered the core of Elias’s work: the concept of civilisation. In a foreword, Dieter Reicher and Adrian Jitschin have endeavoured to explain and break down the relations of Elias’s African experience to the rest of his work and biography. They also clarified some misleading interpretations of Elias’s time in Africa. Finally, Arjan Post has uncovered the previously unknown fascinating story of Elias’ encounter with Malcolm X in an epilogue.
