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S'està carregant… Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures)de Stanley J. Tambiah
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Professor Tambiah, one of today's leading anthropologists, is known particularly for his penetrating and scholarly studies of Buddhism. In this accessible and illuminating book he deals with the classical opposition between magic, science and religion. He reviews the great debates in classical Judaism, early Greek science, Renaissance philosophy, the Protestant Reformation, and the scientific revolution, and then reconsiders the three major interpretive approaches to magic in anthropology: the intellectualist and evolutionary theories of Tylor and Frazer, Malinowski's functionalism, and Levy Bruhl's philosophical anthropology, which posited a distinction between mystical and logical mentalities. There follows a wide-ranging and suggestive discussion of rationality and relativism. The book concludes with a discussion of thinking in the history and philosophy of science, which suggests interesting perspectives on the classical opposition between science and magic. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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I read this collection of lectures primarily for what it had to say on the anthropological treatment of magic, and it did not disappoint. A good overview of this particular topic is hard to come by, and this serves very well. Unfortunately for me, Tambiah subtly moves on from that to discuss the role of rationality in our society and worldbuilding. Equally intriguing, but I wish he had circled it back around to the points about beliefs in magic.
Those are quibbles, though. Anyone interested in the history of human intellect (he discusses the various positions on the psychic unity of mankind, which is often overlooked these days) will find this a fascinating addition to the collection. ( )