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Social Ghosts and the Dead of World History Ghost Theory
By Martyn Hudson
Copyright 2023
152 Pages
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Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
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Social Ghosts and the Dead of World History looks at the global phenomena of the dead in world history, examining the phantasms and spirits of classical social science and philosophy.
From Hegel’s ‘World-Spirit’ to Max Weber’s ‘Verstehen’ and Marx’s phantasms, there is a recurring obsession with the ‘spirits’ of modernity. This book explores the relationships and interactions between those... Read more
1. Germinal: Social Ghosts and the Dead of World History
2. Ghost theory: On Shape-Shifting
3. Lithic Empires: On the Dead of World Prehistory
4. Stone Being: Statues and the Phenomenology of Spirits
5. Wooden Souls: Heads, Beings and the Organic World
6. On Daimonia: Life, Death and Being
7. Abyssal Modernities: From the Interior of Being
8. Coda: On the Dead of Worlds to Come
Biography
Martyn Hudson is an Assistant Professor in Art and Design History at Northumbria University and the author of nine books on critical theory, history and visual culture. He is the editor of the ‘Visual Modernities’ series at Routledge.
