Social ghosts and the dead of world history ghost theory / Martyn Hudson.
| Author/creator | Hudson, Martyn, 1969- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Germinal : social ghosts and the dead of world history -- Ghost theory : on shape-shifting -- Lithic empires : on the dead of world prehistory -- Stone being : statues and the phenomenology of spirits -- Wooden souls : heads, beings and the organic world -- On daimonia : life, death and being -- Abyssal modernities : from the interior of being -- Coda : on the dead of worlds to come. |
| Abstract | "Social Ghosts and the Dead of World History looks at the global phenomena of the dead in world history, examining the phantasms and spirits of classical social science and philosophy. From Hegel's 'World-Spirit' to Max Weber's 'Verstehen' and Marx's phantasms, there is a recurring obsession with the 'spirits' of modernity. This book explores the relationships and interactions between those spirits and materiality in five broad areas: the nature of the dead in modernity, shape-shifting and mobile souls, the spirit in accounts of prehistory and archaeology, the phenomenology of spirits and the relation to statues and stone, and the nature of spirit as it is manifested in wooden artefacts and folklore. It offers a counter-modernity to that of classical social science and philosophy and news ways of thinking about our crises and catastrophes in social theory and the world and the worlds beyond this world. Building on the author's previous work on the sociology of haunted houses and landscapes, it examines the body and the individual as the locus of haunting. The book will appeal to academics in philosophy, history, social theory, anthropology and cultural studies in its omni-disciplinarity and in its import for rethinking the histories of social thought"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Hudson, Martyn, 1969- Social ghosts and the dead of world history London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023 9781032446936 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022059407 |
| ISBN | 9781000867411 (epub) |
| ISBN | 9781003373445 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 9781000867336 (adobe pdf) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |