(Extra)Ordinary Presence : : Social Configurations and Cultural Repertoires / / ed. by Markus Gottwald, Kay Kirchmann, Heike Paul.

Taking its cue from contemporary western debates on presence in the social sciences and the humanities, this volume focuses on 'presence' both as everyday experience and as an experience of intense moments. It raises questions about diverse social configurations of presence as well as abou...

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Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Edition:1. Aufl.
Language:English
Series:Präsenz und implizites Wissen ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (204 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • (Extra)Ordinary Presence
  • I. Whiteness and the Rules of Redemption: Ordinary and Transcendent Presences
  • Caucasia's Capital
  • Christian New Birth as an Experience of Presence
  • Preachers' Daughters
  • II. Ab-Use, Paranoia, Decay: The (Extra)Ordinary Presence of the Past
  • Heidegger Ab-Used
  • Persisting Presence
  • "Still Standing Like Timeless Islands"
  • III. The Cultural Specificity of Presence: Rituals, Symbols, and Imagined Communities
  • The Presence of Sacralization
  • The Macrocontext of (Extra)Ordinary Presence
  • Tea Flows
  • Afterword
  • List of Contributors