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  • Myth and Ideology

    This posthumously published work by Lawrence Krader surveys the study of myths from ancient times (in classical Greece and Rome, Egypt, Babylon, Akkad, Sumer, China), in the Biblical traditions, of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australia, and from Northeastern and Central Asia. It also covers the various approaches to the study of myth in Europe in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and ... Read more

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  • Lawrence Krader

    Selected Works in Philosophy, History and the Social Sciences

    Series Book 4 - Lawrence Krader’s Legacy in Science, History and Philosophy
    Lawrence Krader (1919-1998) was an American philosopher and anthropologist. His extensive writings addressed a wide range of subjects in the fields of history, ethnology, philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, and political economy. Much of his work remained unpublished at the time of his death. This book contains excerpts from Krader’s unpublished manuscripts held at McMaster University. These ... Read more

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  • Against Nativist Language Concepts

    Lawrence Krader on the Diversity, Culturality, and Creativity of Language

    Edited by Sabine Sander ...
    Series Book 3 - Lawrence Krader’s Legacy in Science, History and Philosophy
    Dive into the pioneering work of Lawrence Krader (1919–1998), the trailblazing American ethnologist and philosopher, who challenged conventional linguistics with unparalleled fervor. This edited volume unveils Krader’s unpublished manuscripts and essays in linguistics and semantics, where he critiques innate language theories, universal grammar, and biolinguistics championed by Chomsky and others. ... Read more

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  • Children and the Good Life

    New Challenges for Research on Children

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In April 2009, an inspiring international conference was held at Bielefeld on the topic "Children and the Good Life: New Challenges for Research on Children." The focus was on how we can define and measure a "good life" for children growing up in the modern world. This tied in with discussions on how convincing universalistic theories are, what research on children can contribute, and how children ... Read more

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  • Beyond the Juxtaposition of Nature and Culture

    Lawrence Krader, Interdisciplinarity, and the Concept of the Human Being

    Edited by Cyril Levitt, Sabine Sander ...
    Series Book 5 - History and Philosophy of Science
    The essays contained in Beyond the Juxtaposition of Nature and Culture represent an attempt by scholars from Canada, Germany, and Mexico to come to grips with the innovative work of the American philosopher and anthropologist Lawrence Krader who has proposed nothing less than a new theory of nature, according to which there are at least three different orders—the material-biotic, the quantum, and ... Read more

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  • Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

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    When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation: comparing the mind to a mirror that reflects reality. Rorty's book is a powerful critique of this imagery and the tradition of ... Read more

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