Living with ConceptsPub Date : 2021-06-15DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823294268.003.0005
A. Brandel
{"title":"The Potencie of Text","authors":"A. Brandel","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823294268.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823294268.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapters analyzes two moments in the history of anthropology where the desire to treat concepts as rules, which take the general form of a proposition, runs against their use in practice. In each of the episodes in question—Lévi-Strauss’s analysis of Oedipus and Griaule’s of Ogotommêli’s performance of Dogon cosmology—the anthropologists’ attempts to apply a definition of myth in new contexts are later determined to be ill fitting (after certain antimonies arise), and the counterpart concept reveals itself to be at work. One of the important consequences of this perspective is that it reveals how little mastery we have over our concepts, that we live with concepts that are in the world and that address themselves to us in any number of ways. Another is that the boundary between concepts like myth and literature, if drawn very sharply, is of extremely restricted anthropological use. The extension of concepts to new contexts through examples also transforms the concept (it doesn’t merely illustrate it).","PeriodicalId":381168,"journal":{"name":"Living with Concepts","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116068661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Living with ConceptsPub Date : 2021-06-15DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823294268.003.0007
Marco Motta
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{"title":"LIVING WITH ZOMBIES:","authors":"Marco Motta","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1ks0cw9.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1ks0cw9.9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":381168,"journal":{"name":"Living with Concepts","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132368217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HOW SOCIAL ARE OUR CONCEPTS?","authors":"J. Benoist","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1ks0cw9.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1ks0cw9.8","url":null,"abstract":"Concepts are part of our existence. They enrich it, make things count, and open up new dimensions of experience. Thus, they are a condition of our capacity to bear reality, even if the latter sometimes puts them to the test. Above all, they constitute the format of our responsibility toward others with regard to our ways, even the most individual, of experiencing reality.","PeriodicalId":381168,"journal":{"name":"Living with Concepts","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131902557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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