The Western illusion of human nature : with reflections on the long history of hierarchy, equality and the sublimation of anarchy in the West, and comparative notes on other conceptions of the human condition
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Sahlins, Marshall, 1930-2021.
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Sahlins, Marshall, 1930-2021. Hierarchy, equality, and the sublimation of anarchy.
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http://www.tannerlectures.utah.edu/lectures/documents/Sahlins_2007.pdf

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Civilization, Western.
Kinship.
Philosophical anthropology.
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Civilization, Western.
Kinship.
Philosophical anthropology.
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Anthropologie philosophique.
Civilisation occidentale.
Civilization, Western.
Filosofisk antropologi.
kinship.
Kinship.
Parenté.
philosophical anthropology.
Philosophical anthropology.
Philosophische Anthropologie
Västerlandet -- kultur- och samhällsliv -- historia.

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112 pages ; 18 cm
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English

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"A earlier version of this pamphlet was delivered as a Tanner Lecture at the University of Michigan on 4 November 2005"--Title page verso.
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Earlier version published as: Hierarchy, equality, and the sublimation of anarchy : the Western illusion of human nature. Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, 2007. (Tanner lectures on human values ; v. 27).
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Reflecting the decline in college courses on Western Civilization, Marshall Sahlins aims to accelerate the trend by reducing "Western Civ" to about two hours. He cites Nietzsche to the effect that deep issues are like cold baths; one should get into and out of them as quickly as possible. The deep issue here is the ancient Western specter of a presocial and antisocial human nature: a supposedly innate self-interest that is represented in our native folklore as the basis or nemesis of cultural order. Yet these Western notions of nature and culture ignore the one truly universal character of human sociality: namely, symbolically constructed kinship relations. Kinsmen are members of one another: they live each other's lives and die each other's deaths. But where the existence of the other is thus incorporated in the being of the self, neither interest, nor agency or even experience is an individual fact, let alone an egoistic disposition. -- Description from http://www.press.uchicago.edu (Oct. 24, 2011).
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Sahlins, M. (2008). The Western illusion of human nature: with reflections on the long history of hierarchy, equality and the sublimation of anarchy in the West, and comparative notes on other conceptions of the human condition . Prickly Paradigm Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Sahlins, Marshall, 1930-2021. 2008. The Western Illusion of Human Nature: With Reflections On the Long History of Hierarchy, Equality and the Sublimation of Anarchy in the West, and Comparative Notes On Other Conceptions of the Human Condition. Chicago, Ill.: Prickly Paradigm Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Sahlins, Marshall, 1930-2021. The Western Illusion of Human Nature: With Reflections On the Long History of Hierarchy, Equality and the Sublimation of Anarchy in the West, and Comparative Notes On Other Conceptions of the Human Condition Chicago, Ill.: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2008.

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Sahlins, M. (2008). The western illusion of human nature: with reflections on the long history of hierarchy, equality and the sublimation of anarchy in the west, and comparative notes on other conceptions of the human condition. Chicago, Ill.: Prickly Paradigm Press.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Sahlins, Marshall. The Western Illusion of Human Nature: With Reflections On the Long History of Hierarchy, Equality and the Sublimation of Anarchy in the West, and Comparative Notes On Other Conceptions of the Human Condition Prickly Paradigm Press, 2008.

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