Logic Of Invention

ISBN: 9780999157053 出版年：2018 页码：146 Wagner, Roy HAU Books

In this long-awaited sequel tothe 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.