The Mana of Mass Society

作者：WilliamMazzarella

出版社：UniversityOfChicagoPress

出版年：2017-10-24

页数：224

定价：USD25.00

装帧：Paperback

丛书：ChicagoStudiesinPracticesofMeaning

ISBN：9780226436258

内容简介
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We often invoke the “magic” of mass media to describe seductive advertising or charismatic politicians. In The Mana of Mass Society, William Mazzarella asks what happens to social theory if we take that idea seriously. How would it change our understanding of publicity, propaganda, love, and power?

Mazzarella reconsiders the concept of “mana,” which served in early anthropology as a troubled bridge between “primitive” ritual and the fascination of mass media. Thinking about mana, Mazzarella shows, means rethinking some of our most fundamental questions: What powers authority? What in us responds to it? Is the mana that animates an Aboriginal ritual the same as the mana that energizes a revolutionary crowd, a consumer public, or an art encounter? At the intersection of anthropology and critical theory, The Mana of Mass Society brings recent conversations around affect, sovereignty, and emergence into creative contact with classic debates on religion, charisma, ideology, and aesthetics.

作者简介
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William Mazzarella is the Neukom Family Professor of Anthropology and the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago.

目录
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Acknowledgments

Introduction

A Certain Rush of Energy

Part I: The Social in the Subject

Chapter 1: Modern Savagery

Mana beyond the Empiricist Settlement

Chapter 2: Ecstatic Life and Social Form

Collective Effervescence and the Primitive Settlement

Part II: The Subject in the Social

Chapter 3: Anxious Autonomy

The Agony of Perfect Addressability and the Aesthetic Settlement

Chapter 4: Are You Talking to Me?

Eros and Nomos in the Mimetic Archive

Notes

References

Index

评论 ······

将mana先置于社会结构的观点很有参考性，并且对culture studies以及批判理论对于美学的文献进行了很深刻的分析。

将mana先置于社会结构的观点很有参考性，并且对culture studies以及批判理论对于美学的文献进行了很深刻的分析。

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