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The Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil: Tricksterology “Because evil is a term fraught with religious overtones, it tends to be under- theorized in our largely secular contemporary culture. Yet something like evil continues to exist, arguably more forcefully today than ever, so the authors of this timely and important book assert. They argue boldly that understanding the continued presence of evil in the modern world requires reconceiving evil through the mythical figure of the trickster, a cross-cultural symbol that repre- sents the perennial temptation to ignore the inherent limits of human thought and action. A wide ranging study that draws on multiple disciplinary sources, Horvath and Szakolczai illustrate forcefully how contemporary efforts to maximize productivity across all sectors of our social order violates the ethos of limits, and only liberates further the forces of destruction. In an age of increasingly mindless (and therefore runaway) processes, we would do well to heed the message of this significant study.” – Gilbert Germain, Professor of Political Thought at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada “A complex and timely meditation on the nature of evil in human societies, reaching back into the distant past – while not all will agree with its methods or conclusions, this book offers provocative ideas for consideration by anthro- pologists, philosophers, and culture historians.” – David Wengrow, Professor of Comparative Archaeology, University College London, UK “This book offers an original and thought-provoking engagement with a problem for which we still lack adequate perspectives: the disastrous experience of advanced modernity with what we can provisionally call demonic power.” – Johann Arnason, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, La Trobe University, Australia “Horvath and Szakolczai provide a remarkable service in bringing the neglec- ted figure of the trickster into the spotlight. This is a book to be recommended and savoured as a fillip to the sociological imagination today.” – Chris Rojek, Professor of Sociology, City University of London, UK The Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil: Tricksterology This book offers a new approach to the problem of evil through an examination of the anthropological figure of the ‘trickster’. A lesser known and much more recent term than evil, the authors use the trickster to facilitate a greater understanding of the return of evil in the modern era. Instead of simply opposing ‘good’ and ‘evil’, the figure of the trickster is used to pursue the trajectories of similarities and quasi-simi- larities through imitation. After engaging with the trickster as presented in comparative anthropology and mythology, where it appears in tales and legends as a strange, erratic outsider, the authors seek to gain an inside perspective of trickster knowledge through an examination of mythology and the classical world, including both philosophers and poets. The book then goes on to trace the trickster through prehistory, using archaeological evidence to com- plement the diverse narratives. In this way, and by investigating the knowledge and cus- toms surrounding evil, the authors use the figure of the trickster to provide an unprecedented diagnosis of the contemporary world, where external, mechanical ration- ality has become taken for granted and even considered as foundational in politics, eco- nomics, and technologised science. The authors advance the idea that the modern world, with its global free markets, mass mediatic democracy and technologised science, repre- sents a universalisation of trickster logic. The Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil: Tricksterology will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of social theory, political anthropology and political sociology, as well as those interested in the ways in which evil can infiltrate reality. Agnes Horvath is a founding and chief editor of International Political Anthropology.She taught in Hungary, Ireland and Italy, and was affiliate visiting scholar and supervisor at Cambridge University. She is the author of Modernism and Charisma, the co-author of The Dissolution of Communist Power: The Case of Hungary and Walking into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking, and the co-editor of Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality, Walling, Boundaries and Liminality, and Divinization and Technology: The Political Anthropology of Subversion. Arpad Szakolczai is professor of sociology at University College Cork, Ireland and previously taught social theory at the European University Institute in Florence. He is the author of Max Weber and Michel Foucault: Parallel Life-Works, Reflexive His- torical Sociology, Sociology, Religion and Grace: A Quest for the Renaissance, The Genesis of Modernity, Comedy and the Public Sphere, Novels and the Sociology of the Contemporary, and Permanent Liminality and Modernity, and the co-author of Walk- ing into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking and From Anthropology to Social Theory: Rethinking the Social Sciences. Contemporary Liminality Series editors: Arpad Szakolczai, University College Cork, Ireland Series advisory board: Agnes Horvath, University College Cork, Ireland Bjørn Thomassen, Roskilde University, Denmark Harald Wydra, University of Cambridge, UK This series constitutes a forum for works that make use of concepts such as ‘imita- tion’, ‘trickster’ or ‘schismogenesis’, but which chiefly deploy the notion of ‘limin- ality’, as the basis of a new, anthropologically-focused paradigm in social theory. With its versatility and range of possible uses rivalling and even going beyond mainstream concepts such as ‘system’‘structure’ or ‘institution’, liminality is increasingly considered a new master concept that promises to spark a renewal in social thought. In spite of the fact that charges of Eurocentrism or even ‘moderno-centrism’ are widely discussed in sociology and anthropology, it remains the case that most theoretical tools in the social sciences continue to rely on taken-for-granted approaches developed from within the modern Western intellectual tradition, whilst concepts developed on the basis of extensive anthropological evidence and which challenged commonplaces of modernist thinking, have been either mar- ginalised and ignored, or trivialised. By challenging the assumed neo-Kantian and neo-Hegelian foundations of modern social theory, and by helping to shed new light on the fundamental ideas of major figures in social theory, such as Nietzsche, Dilthey, Weber, Elias, Voegelin, Foucault and Koselleck, whilst also establishing connections between the perspectives gained through modern social and cultural anthropology and the central concerns of classical philosophical anthropology Contemporary Liminality offers a new direction in social thought. Titles in this series 8. The Spectacle of Critique From Philosophy to Cacophony Tom Boland 9. Divinization and Technology The Political Anthropology of Subversion Edited by Agnes Horvath, Camil Roman and Gilbert Germain 10. The Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil: Tricksterology Agnes Horvath and Arpad Szakolczai For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/ sociology/series/ASHSER1435 The Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil: Tricksterology Agnes Horvath and Arpad Szakolczai First published 2020 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2020 Agnes Horvath and Arpad Szakolczai The right of Agnes Horvath and Arpad Szakolczai to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Every effort has been made to contact copyright-holders. Please advise the publisher of any errors or omissions, and these will be corrected in subsequent editions. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Horvath, Agnes, 1957- author. | Szakolczai, Arpad, author. Title: The political sociology and anthropology of evil : tricksterology / Agnes Horvath and Arpad Szakolczai. Description: First Edition. | New York : Routledge, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019025306 (print) | LCCN 2019025307 (ebook) | ISBN 9781138312142 Hardback Subjects: LCSH: Political sociology. | Tricksters. Classification: LCC JA76 .H675 2019 (print) | LCC JA76 (ebook) | DDC 306.2--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019025306 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019025307 ISBN: 978-1-138-31214-2 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-429-45841-5 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Taylor & Francis Books In memory of Alessandro Pizzorno unforgettable teacher and colleague Contents List of figures x Preface xi Acknowledgements xiv Introduction 1 PART I Presenting the trickster 13 1 The trickster in anthropology:
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