The Perils of the One by Stathis Gourgouris
English | January 11th, 2020 | ISBN: 0231192886 | 264 pages | EPUB | 1.82 MB
From the earliest times, societies have been seduced by the temptation of unitary thinking. Recognizing the vulnerability of existence, people and cultures privilege regimes that confer authority on a single entity, a sovereign ruler or a transcendental deity, which they embrace with unquestioned devotion. Such obsessions precipitate contempt for the worldliness of real bodies in real time and refusal of responsibility and agency.