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Liminality and the Modern

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Liminality and the Modern book

Living Through the In-Between

Liminality and the Modern

DOI link for Liminality and the Modern

Liminality and the Modern book

Living Through the In-Between
ByBjørn Thomassen
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 6 May 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315592435
Pages 262 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315592435
SubjectsGeography, Humanities, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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Thomassen, B. (2014). Liminality and the Modern. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315592435

This book provides the history and genealogy of an increasingly important subject: liminality. Coming to the fore in recent years in social and political theory and extending beyond is original use as developed within anthropology, liminality has come to denote spaces and moments in which the taken-for-granted order of the world ceases to exist and novel forms emerge, often in unpredictable ways. Liminality and the Modern offers a comprehensive introduction to this concept, discussing its development and laying out a conceptual and experiential framework for thinking about change in terms of liminality. Applying this framework to questions surrounding the implosion of ’non-spaces’, the analysis of major historical periods and the study of political revolution, the book also explores its possible uses in social science research and its implications for our understanding of the uncertainty and contingency of the liquid structures of modern society. Shedding new light on a concept central to social thought, as well as its capacity for pushing social and political theory in new directions, this book will be of interest to scholars across the social sciences and philosophy working in fields such as social, political and anthropological theory, cultural studies, social and cultural geography, and historical anthropology and sociology.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |18 pages

Introduction: Into Liminality

part |2 pages

PART I: Retrieving Liminality Within the History of Social Thought

chapter 1|26 pages

Arnold van Gennep: Fragments of a Life-Work at the Thresholds

chapter 2|24 pages

Arnold van Gennep and his Contemporaries: Revisiting the Foundations of Sociology and Anthropology

ByEmile Durkheim, Marcel Mauss, Gabriel Tarde

chapter 3|18 pages

Liminality Rediscovered: With Victor Turner and Beyond

chapter 4|22 pages

Dimensions of Liminality

part |2 pages

Part II: On the Liminal Conditions of the Times in Which We Live

chapter 5|28 pages

Liminality in the Transition to Modernity: The Case of Thomas Hobbes and René Descartes

chapter 6|26 pages

Game and Gambling and the Implosion of Liminality: Playing Modernity

chapter 7|24 pages

From Liminal to Liminoid to Limivoid: Bungee Jumping and the Quest for Excitement in Contemporary Leisure

chapter 8|24 pages

Liminal Politics: Towards an Anthropology of Political Revolutions

chapter 9|16 pages

By Way of Conclusion: Out of Liminality

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