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  • POLITICAL ALCHEMY: TECHNOLOGY UNBOUNDED
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    POLITICAL ALCHEMY: TECHNOLOGY UNBOUNDED
    AGNES HORVATH
    This book explores politics as a form of alchemy, understood as the transformation of entities through an alteration of their identities. Identifying this process as a common denominator of many political phenomena, such as EU integration, mediatisation, communism or globalisation, the author demonstrates not only the widespread presence of alchemical techniques in politics, bu...

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  • MODERN LEADERS: BETWEEN CHARISMA AND TRICKERY
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    MODERN LEADERS: BETWEEN CHARISMA AND TRICKERY
    ÁRPÁD SZAKOLCZAI / MANUSSOS MARANGUDAKIS / ÁGNES HORVÁTH
    This book considers the current striking rise of ‘outsider’ political leaders, catapulted, apparently, from nowhere, to take charge of a nation. Arguing that such leaders can be better understood with the help of the anthropologically based concept of ‘the trickster’, it offers studies of contemporary political figures from the world stage – including Presidents Macron, Tsipras...

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  • THE POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY OF EVIL: TRICKSTEROLOGY
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    THE POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY OF EVIL: TRICKSTEROLOGY
    AGNES HORVATH / ARPAD SZAKOLCZAI
    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...

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  • WALLING, BOUNDARIES AND LIMINALITY
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    WALLING, BOUNDARIES AND LIMINALITY
    AGNES HORVATH, MARIUS ION BENŢA AND JOAN DAVISON
    Contemporary challenges related to walls, borders and encirclement, such as migration, integration and endemic historical conflicts, can only be understood properly from a long-term perspective. This book seeks to go beyond conventional definitions of the long durée by locating the social practice of walling and encirclement in the broadest context of human history, integrating...

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  • WALKING INTO THE VOID
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    WALKING INTO THE VOID
    ARPAD SZAKOLCZAI / AGNES HORVATH
    The book starts by discussing the significance of walking for the experience of being human, including a comparative study of the language and cultures of walking. It then reviews in detail, relying on archaeology, two turning points of human history: the emergence of cave art sanctuaries and a new cultural practice of long-distance ‘pilgrimages’, implying a descent into such c...

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