The Logic Of Invention 1st Edition by Roy Wagner ISBN 1912808528 9781912808526

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ISBN 10: 1912808528 
ISBN 13: 9781912808526
Author: Roy Wagner

In this long-awaited sequel to The Invention of Culture, Roy Wagner tackles the logic and motives that underlie cultural invention. Could there be a single, logical factor that makes the invention of the distinction between self and other possible, much as specific human genes allow for language?

Wagner explores what he calls “the reciprocity of perspectives” through a journey between Euro-American bodies of knowledge and his in-depth knowledge of Melanesian modes of thought. This logic grounds variants of the subject/object transformation, as Wagner works through examples such as the figure-ground reversal in Gestalt psychology, Lacan’s theory of the mirror-stage formation of the Ego, and even the self-recursive structure of the aphorism and the joke. Juxtaposing Wittgenstein’s and Leibniz’s philosophy with Melanesian social logic, Wagner explores the cosmological dimensions of the ways in which different societies develop models of self and the subject/object distinction. The result is a philosophical tour de force by one of anthropology’s greatest mavericks.

The Logic Of Invention 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: The reciprocity of perspectives

Chapter 2: Facts picture us to themselves: Wittgenstein’s propositions

Chapter 3: Nonlinear causality

Chapter 4: The ontology of representation

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