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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/195693314 Title: 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 Author: Marshall Sahlins Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Prickly Paradigm Press, ©2008. ISBN/ISSN: 9780979405723 0979405726 OCLC:195693314

  
  

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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

Author:	Marshall Sahlins
Publisher:	Chicago, Ill. : Prickly Paradigm Press, ©2008.
Series:	Paradigm (Chicago, Ill.), 32.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	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).  Read more...
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Subjects	Philosophical anthropology. Civilization, Western. Kinship. View all subjects
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