The Institutions of Meaning: A Defense of Anthropological Holism by Vincent Descombes

The Institutions of Meaning: A Defense of Anthropological Holism

Vincent Descombes with Stephen Adam Schwartz (Translator)

360 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction philosophy sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Holism grows out of the philosophical position that an object or phenomenon is more than the sum of its parts. And yet analysis--a mental process crucial to human comprehension--involves breaking something down into its components, dismantling the...

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