1st Edition
The Anthropological Paradox Niches, Micro-worlds and Psychic Dissociation
Preface to the english edition; Introduction; Chapter 1: Niches Chapter 2: Psychopathology of present-day life Chapter 3: The grey area between fact and fiction Chapter 4: Different ways of building a world Chapter 5: Anthropology of pluralism
Biography
Massimo De Carolis is Full Professor of Political Philosophy and Social Philosophy at the University of Salerno, where he is the head of the Laboratory of Studies and Research on Human Nature. Among his most recent books: La vita nell’epoca della sua riproducibilità tecnica (Life in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility: 2004) and Il rovescio della libertà. Tramonto del neoliberalismo e disagio della civiltà (The Downside of Freedom. The Twilight of Neoliberalism and Civilisation’s Discontent, 2017).
"This study, being both erudite and engagingly written, will likely broaden the intellectual horizons of readers interested in Carnival studies, and—more generically—in the study of rituality at the interface between anthropology, folklore, and history."
Francisco Vaz da Silva, Lisbon University Institute, Lisbon, Portugal
