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During the Enlightenment, Western scholars racialized ideas, deeming knowledge based on reality superior to that based on ideality. This book brings the unacknowledged history of this racialization to light and shows how, even as we have rejected ethnocentric notions of the savage, they remain active.

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"Bracken argues that, despite our denial, savage philosophy is very much with us today, and in an extraordinary whirl through many of today's canonized thinkers, he uncovers and explicates its strands. The depth and breadth of his purview are quite extraordinary: this book will appeal to scholars of literary criticism, anthropology, philosophy, and intellectual history. I was enchanted by it." - Vincent Crapanzano, author of Imaginative Horizons"

Magical Criticism The Recourse of Savage

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      Publisher: University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 9/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226069906, 978-0226069906
      ISBN10: 0226069907
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      Book Synopsis
      During the Enlightenment, Western scholars racialized ideas, deeming knowledge based on reality superior to that based on ideality. This book brings the unacknowledged history of this racialization to light and shows how, even as we have rejected ethnocentric notions of the savage, they remain active.

      Trade Review
      "Bracken argues that, despite our denial, savage philosophy is very much with us today, and in an extraordinary whirl through many of today's canonized thinkers, he uncovers and explicates its strands. The depth and breadth of his purview are quite extraordinary: this book will appeal to scholars of literary criticism, anthropology, philosophy, and intellectual history. I was enchanted by it." - Vincent Crapanzano, author of Imaginative Horizons"

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