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  • The Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader

    by Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Ranajit Guha ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Sharing a postrevolutionary sympathy with the struggles of the poor, the contributors to this first comprehensive collection of writing on subalternity in Latin America work to actively link politics, culture, and literature. Emerging from a decade of work and debates generated by a collective known as the Latin American Studies Group, the volume privileges the category of the subaltern over that ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • History at the Limit of World-History

    by Ranajit Guha ...
    Series series Italian Academy Lectures
    The past is not just, as has been famously said, another country with foreign customs: it is a contested and colonized terrain. Indigenous histories have been expropriated, eclipsed, sometimes even wholly eradicated, in the service of imperialist aims buttressed by a distinctly Western philosophy of history. Ranajit Guha, perhaps the most influential figure in postcolonial and subaltern studies at ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Small Voice of History

    Collected Essays

    by Ranajit Guha ...
    Ranajit Guha is arguably the Indian historian whose writings have had a massive and formative impact on contemporary scholarship in several disciplines throughout the world: on postcolonial studies in literature, in anthropology, in history, in cultural studies, in art history.Guha first became known as the practitioner of a critical Marxism that ran parallel to the work of British and French ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    India has a long, rich, and diverse tradition of philosophical thought, spanning some two and a half millennia and encompassing several major religious traditions. This Very Short Introduction emphasizes the diversity of Indian thought, and is structured around six schools which have achieved classic status. Sue Hamilton explores how the traditions have attempted to understand the nature of ... Read more

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  • Witching Culture

    Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America

    by Sabina Magliocco ...
    Series series Contemporary Ethnography
    Taking the reader into the heart of one of the fastest-growing religious movements in North America, Sabina Magliocco reveals how the disciplines of anthropology and folklore were fundamental to the early development of Neo-Paganism and the revival of witchcraft. Magliocco examines the roots that this religious movement has in a Western spiritual tradition of mysticism disavowed by the ... Read more

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  • Paganism: A Religion for the 21st Century

    by Shanddaramon ...
    This book will explain what Modern Paganism is and why it is a real religion and an important spiritual path for the Postmodern world. It will dispel many of the misconceptions and misunderstandings about Paganism and will describe some very simple practices that anyone can do to begin living a Pagan lifestyle. ... Read more

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  • Ride the Tiger

    A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul

    by Julius Evola ...
    Translated by Joscelyn Godwin, Constance Fontana ...
    Julius Evola’s final major work, which examines the prototype of the human being who can give absolute meaning to his or her life in a world of dissolution• Presents a powerful criticism of the idols, structures, theories, and illusions of our modern age• Reveals how to transform destructive processes into inner liberationThe organizations and institutions that, in a traditional civilization and ... Read more

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  • The Myth of Disenchantment

    Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences

    by Jason A. Josephson-Storm ...
    This study of the early human sciences and their deep connections to spiritualism dispenses with the myth that separates magic and modernity.Many theorists contend that the defining feature of modernity is our collective loss of faith in spirits, myths, and magic. But in The Myth of Disenchantment, Jason A. Josephson-Storm argues against this narrative, showing that attempts to suppress magic have ... Read more

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  • Nietzsche and Zen

    Self Overcoming Without a Self

    by André van der Braak ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion
    In Nietzsche and Zen: Self-Overcoming Without a Self, André van der Braak engages Nietzsche in a dialogue with four representatives of the Buddhist Zen tradition: Nagarjuna (c. 150-250), Linji (d. 860), Dogen (1200-1253), and Nishitani (1900-1990). In doing so, he reveals Nietzsche's thought as a philosophy of continuous self-overcoming, in which even the notion of "self" has been overcome. Van ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy of Desire in the Buddhist Pali Canon

    by David Webster ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
    David Webster explores the notion of desire as found in the Buddhist Pali Canon. Beginning by addressing the idea of a 'paradox of desire', whereby we must desire to end desire, the varieties of desire that are articulated in the Pali texts are examined. A range of views of desire, as found in Western thought, are presented as well as Hindu and Jain approaches. An exploration of the concept of ... Read more

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  • A General Theory of Magic

    by Marcel Mauss ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    First written by Marcel Mauss and Henri Humbert in 1902, A General Theory of Magic gained a wide new readership when republished by Mauss in 1950. As a study of magic in 'primitive' societies and its survival today in our thoughts and social actions, it represents what Claude Lévi-Strauss called, in an introduction to that edition, the astonishing modernity of the mind of one of the century's ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Indian Philosophy

    by Roy W. Perrett ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
    This wide-ranging introduction to classical Indian philosophy is philosophically rigorous without being too technical for beginners. Through detailed explorations of the full range of Indian philosophical concerns, including some metaphilosophical issues, it provides readers with non-Western perspectives on central areas of philosophy, including epistemology, logic, metaphysics, ethics, philosophy ... Read more

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