RELS 377 Lecture Notes - False Dilemma, Sui Generis, Proletariat
25 Jan 2014
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Looking at and trying to understand an alien civilization. How to write an essay an assay of the mind. Hermeneutics- greek for message- hermes is the messenger- thus it is the study of interpretation/understanding. Derrida- trapped in cycle of making text and having to reinterpret. Think of all rebuttles and talk about them. So what question- answer it in essay present essay like a legal case- premises and conclusion orthodoxy vs orthopraxy axioms for marx and durkheim both see religion at level of society not individual (opposed to first three) Durkheim religion answers societal need religion not about belief in supernatural the sacred as special, forbidden, set aside, holy desecrate means to de-sac(red) totem as most simple form of religion. Metaphors are dialectic- a semantic unit- bring two ideas together in a way in which creates a sort of tension- like freud"s men are wolves brought into tension through the metaphor.
