Rethinking Pluralism nsm4toc Asma unravels traditional monster stories

Asma unravels traditional monster stories for the clues they offer about the inner logic of an era's fears and fascinations

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Rethinking Pluralism nsm4toc Asma unravels traditional monster storiesHow can we order the world while accepting its enduring ambiguities? Rethinking Pluralism suggests a new approach to the problem of ambiguity and social order, which goes beyond the default modern position of 'notation' (resort to rules and categories to disambiguate). The book argues that alternative, more particularistic modes of dealing with ambiguity through ritual and shared experience better attune to contemporary problems of living with