Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

Politics of the Pluriverse

Martin Savransky (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2021
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1412-6 (ISBN)

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In Around the Day in Eighty Worlds Martin Savransky calls for a radical politics of the pluriverse amid the ongoing devastation of the present. Responding to an epoch marked by the history of colonialism and ecological devastation, Savransky draws on the pragmatic pluralism of William James to develop what Savransky calls a “pluralistic realism”-an understanding of the world as simultaneously one and many, ongoing and unfinished, underway and yet to be made. Savransky explores the radical multifariousness of reality by weaving key aspects of James's thought together with divergent worlds and stories: of Magellan's circumnavigation, sorcery in Mozambique, God's felt presence among a group of evangelicals in California, visible spirits in Zambia, and ghosts in the wake of the 2011 tsunami in Japan. Throughout, he experiments with these storied worlds to dramatize new ways of approaching the politics of radical difference and the possibility of transforming reality. By exploring and constructing relations between James's pluralism and the ontological turn in anthropology, Savransky offers a new conceptualization of the pluriverse that fosters modes of thinking and living otherwise.

Martin Savransky is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London; author of The Adventure of Relevance: An Ethics of Social Inquiry; and coeditor of Speculative Research: The Lure of Possible Futures.

Acknowledgments vii
1. Ongoing and Unfinished 1
2. Runaway Metaphysics 25
3. Trust of a Held-out Hand 49
4. Worldquakes 70
5. Pragmatism in the Wake 91
6. The Insistence of the Pluriverse 113
Notes 133
Bibliography 163
Index 177

Erscheinungsdatum	17.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Thought in the Act
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	295 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-1412-1 / 1478014121
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-1412-6 / 9781478014126
Zustand	Neuware