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Susan Sontag
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The anthropologist as hero
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Hegelian
(en)
(adjective) of, relating to, or characteristic of Hegel, his philosophy, or his dialectic method / (noun) a follower of Hegel; an adherent of Hegelianism
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Modern thought is pledged to a kind of applied Hegelianism: seeking its Self in its Other.
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Modern thought is pledged to a kind of applied Hegelianism: seeking its Self in its Other.
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9 years ago
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The anthopologist is thus not only the mourner of the cold world of the primitives, but its custodian as well. Lamenting among the shadows, struggling to distinguish the archaic from the pseudoarchaic, he acts out a heroic, diligent, and complex modern pessimism.
beautiful last paragraph. On Lévi-Strauss, outlining his post-Marxist vision of freedom
The anthopologist is thus not only the mourner of the cold world of the primitives, but its custodian as well. Lamenting among the shadows, struggling to distinguish the archaic from the pseudoarchaic, he acts out a heroic, diligent, and complex modern pessimism.
beautiful last paragraph. On Lévi-Strauss, outlining his post-Marxist vision of freedom