WHEN METAPHYSICAL WORDS BLOSSOM: Pierre and Hélène Clastres on Guarani Thought [Translation]
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Sztutman, Renato and Sauma, Julia F.. 2017. WHEN METAPHYSICAL WORDS BLOSSOM: Pierre and Hélène Clastres on Guarani Thought [Translation]. Common Knowledge, 23 (2): 325–344, Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina. [Other]
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This article is a belated contribution to a Common Knowledge symposium on the “unanticipated conceptual practice” of “anthropological philosophy.” The basic argument is that the groundwork for this emerging approach, associated foremost with Eduardo Viveiros de Castro's book Métaphysiques cannibales of 2009, was laid in the 1970s by the controversial French anthropologists Pierre and Hélène Clastres. It is argued that the Clastres took the intellectual practices of Guarani shamans and prophets as analogous to the those of ancient Greek philosophers but also as sharply critical of the principles (in particular, the principle of non-contradiction) that underlay early Western metaphysics.
Translated by Julia Frajtag Sauma
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© 2017 by Duke University Press |
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Guarani, Pierre and Hélène Clastres, metaphysics, cosmopolitics, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro |
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1 April 2017 |
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36837 |
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20 Jun 2024 09:06 |
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20 Jun 2024 20:26 |
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