2001, ISBN: 9789639241077

Central European University Press, 2001. Soft cover. Good. Paperback, 317pp, NOT ex-library. Gently age-toned pages, else interior is very good: clean, with firm binding and unmarked te… More...

Central European University Press, 2001. Soft cover. Good. Paperback, 317pp, NOT ex-library. Gently age-toned pages, else interior is very good: clean, with firm binding and unmarked text. Cover shows shelfwear; spine is moderately creased. -- Contents: 1. Fear & Social Sciences: - Fear [Paradox of Fear] - Sociology [Devil in the Indexes; Durkheim; Weber; Parsons; Situational vs Existential Fear] - Anthropology [Theories & Genesis of Culture; Existential Problems] - Psychology [About Indexes Again; Experimental Psychology; Civilization & Fear; Terror Management Theory] - Fear & Civilization / 2. World of Symbols: - Strategies [Promethean & Apollonian Strategy; 301,665,722 Angels] - Symbols, Myths, Civilizations [Symbolic Animal; Defense Mechanisms; Premature Animal; Angel of Death; Social Enterprise of World Building] - Collapse & Regeneration [Copernican Shock; Freedom & Anxiety; Loss of Symbols] / 3. An Alien World?: - The World [And What about Us, Sir?; Is This Our World?; Incompatibilities; Killing Fields] - Human Beings [Dead-Ends; Will Butterflies Survive Us?; Do We Need Space Suits in New York or Rome?; Pain & Suffering] - Four Jungles [Physical Jungle; Social Jungle; Jungle in Our Souls; Metaphysical Jungle] - Experience of the Alien World / 4. Garden of Eden: - Myth of the Center [On the Periphery; Revolution in Reverse; Where Is the Center, If There Is One?; God or Satan?] - Consecration - Paradise [Fortress of Innocence; Sacred Mountains; From the Garden to the City; Cross of Christ & the Skull of Adam] - The Garden [Enchanted Garden] / 5. Image of the World: - The House [Imago Mundi] - The City [City & the Wilderness; City & Its Archetypes] - Temple & the Cathedral [Gate of Hell & Heaven; Arabesque; Light] - Chaos & Cosmos Today [World of Light & Shadow; Automobile; Shopping Mall; Transcendental Carnival; Realm of the Devil; Negative Myth] / 6. Moral Universe: - Amulets & Sacraments [Exorcism; Defilement & Purification] - Rationalization [Origins of Evil; Pandora's Box; Evil in the Bible; Evil Does Not Exist] - Satan [Evil Condensed; God's Devil; Apocalypse] - Transformation of Evil [Moral Universe; Why Have We Forgotten the Victims?] / 7. World of Guilt: - Guilt [Great Reversal; Price of Guilt] - Religion of Guilt [Machinery of Guilt; A Pilgrim on Earth] - Philosophy of Guilt [Guilt & the Human Condition] - Politics of Guilt [Show Trials; Stigma; Hidden Values; Double Bind; Negative Social Contract] - Psychology of Guilt [Freud & Human Unhappiness; Eros & Ananke; Eros & Thanatos; Boiling Cauldron of Guilt; Guilt Without Culture] - Innocent Society? / 8. Rational World: - Two Faces of Rationality [War & Celestial Harmony; Prometheus vs Apollo] - Reason & Meaning [Loss of Meaning; Kingdom & the Darkness; Meaning of Life] - Reason & Morality - Reason & Uncertainty [Discovery or Invention?; Wisdom of Uncertainty; World Does Not Speak] / 9. World of Beauty: - Art [Music; Horror & Beauty] - Tragedy [Why Did Oedipus Blind Himself?; Romeo & Juliet & Happy Ending; Desdemona's Handkerchief; Catharsis] / 10. World of Play: - Homo ludens [In a Strange Land; Under the Sign of Play; Not All Is Play; Don't Kiss the Engine, Daddy; World of Innocence; Chance & Cherries; Paradox of Freedom] - Soccer [Sacred Rules; Ball; Dionysus vs Apollo; American Football] - Play as World Symbol [Cosmic Ball Game; God at Play; Creation Through Play; Loss of Play; Frivolity & Ecstasy] / 11. World of Jokes: - Jokes & Laughter [Did Moses or Christ Ever Laugh?; Are Jokes Trivial?; Freud & Jokes] - Comic Destruction of Reality [Destruction of Logic & Causality; Clown's Leap Into Freedom; Flirting with the Alien World; Laughter & Terror] / 12. World of Trivialities: Perfumes & Holy Grail; Creation & Plenitude; Icarian Symbolism; Transcendence; Spirituality & Sensuality; Sensuality & Love; Escape from Time and Mortality & from Everyday Life; Epiphany of Personality; Delusion or Creation? / 13. Symbols & Civilization: Can Symbols Protect Us?; Constructs; Civilization: Brilliant Construct?, Central European University Press, 2001<

ISBN: 9789639241077

An encyclopedic study on the role that fear and anxiety have played as the organizing motives of human existence and social life. Hankiss explains how human beings have surrounded themsel… More...

An encyclopedic study on the role that fear and anxiety have played as the organizing motives of human existence and social life. Hankiss explains how human beings have surrounded themselves with protective symbols: myths and religions, values and belief systems, ideas and scientific theories, moral and practical rules of behaviour, and a wide range of everyday rituals and trivialities. Media > Book<

ISBN: 9789639241077

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