Kees van der Pijl's The Foreign Encounter in Myth and Religion: Modes of Foreign PDF

By Kees van der Pijl

ISBN-10: 0745323162

ISBN-13: 9780745323169

ISBN-10: 1849644497

ISBN-13: 9781849644495

The overseas come across In fantasy And Religion is the second one quantity of Modes of overseas family and Political Economy, a three-volume undertaking that is altering the best way we predict approximately overseas relations.

In the 1st, Deutscher prize-winning quantity, Kees van der Pijl brought the ground-breaking argument that our present overseas process of country states is simply a traditionally particular kind of overseas relatives, instead of an enduring fixture. Now he strains the foremost features of 'foreign encounters' through the years, exhibiting that fantasy, faith and moral philosophies have continually knowledgeable the best way that societies have interacted with outsiders. This issues us in the direction of the long run nation of overseas relations.

A actually masterful paintings, The international come across In fable And Religion, is a needs to for upper-undergraduates and lecturers on the leading edge of diplomacy theory.

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At one point, however, they club together and kill the father, eating him to appropriate his qualities (an act in which hatred and admiration are conflated). Next, the brothers, fearing a fratricidal fight over succession, agree a social contract by which they renounce the claim to be the sole ruler. They also renounce the right to marry mothers and sisters (thus establishing patterned exogamy). The original father continues to be worshipped in the form of the totem, a sacred animal or other token signifying the origin of the group, thus reconciling the patricide with the need for community.

The inadvertent reverence for mythical beings who were ‘white’ often served to disarm local populations and made them defenceless against Europeans – the Aztecs ‘expected’ Cortes, and Europeans fitted well into the Aryan caste hierarchy as well. Van Baaren (1980: 148–50) records how a nineteenth-century German traveller was received enthusiastically by Urundi tribesmen as a Mwesi, a sacral king who according to their myth lived on the moon, had a white skin, and would come from the north. When the visitor’s armed escort misunderstood the Urundi’s overenthusiastic welcome and killed 30 of them, the survivors were even more jubilant, because a Mwesi who would not kill people would not be the real one.

Mass delusion, too, is standard fare here; history is necessarily made and experienced + t2z through a cultural prism, it is always ‘ethnically’ inflected. 1, first-dimension time gives the real ‘date’, t1y, a point from which time can only move forward, so it always adds up positively. In second-dimension time, on the other hand, the ‘moment’ in eternity, the time of truly human consciousness, may be set at a different point. It can move either backwards into the imagined past relative to t1y, at t2x, or ahead of it, to a point t2z, a ‘utopian’ move by which possibilities that strictly speaking are not yet realisable come into view.

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