The Excluded Third:Contribution to a Dialectical Anthropology (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 288)

by: Feando Haddad (Author),Daniel Hahn(Translator)

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Publication Date: 2024/6/27

Language: English

Print Length: 180 pages

ISBN-10: 9004700897

ISBN-13: 9789004700895

Book Description

In view of the new forays from biology into the Humanities, this book aims not only to demonstrate the inconsistencies of the theory of evolution in addressing cultural dynamics but also to offer an alteative that begins from a resumption of the dialogue between anthropology and historical materialism in which dialectics reintroduces itself to anthropology from different premises and the role of symbolic language within materialism is reevaluated.

About the Author

In view of the new forays from biology into the Humanities, this book aims not only to demonstrate the inconsistencies of the theory of evolution in addressing cultural dynamics but also to offer an alteative that begins from a resumption of the dialogue between anthropology and historical materialism in which dialectics reintroduces itself to anthropology from different premises and the role of symbolic language within materialism is reevaluated.