{"product_id":"the-logic-of-invention-roy-wagner-9781013291579","title":"The Logic of Invention","description":"In this long-awaited sequel to The Invention of Culture, Roy Wagner tackles the logic and motives that underlie cultural invention. Could there be a single, logical factor that makes the invention of the distinction between self and other possible, much as specific human genes allow for language? Wagner explores what he calls \"the reciprocity of perspectives\" through a journey between Euro-American bodies of knowledge and his in-depth knowledge of Melanesian modes of thought. This logic grounds variants of the subject\/object transformation, as Wagner works through examples such as the figure-ground reversal in Gestalt psychology, Lacan's theory of the mirror-stage formation of the Ego, and even the self-recursive structure of the aphorism and the joke. Juxtaposing Wittgenstein's and Leibniz's philosophy with Melanesian social logic, Wagner explores the cosmological dimensions of the ways in which different societies develop models of self and the subject\/object distinction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roy Wagner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1013291573\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781013291579\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Saint Philip Street Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/09\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.38d","brand":"Roy Wagner","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46906641219839,"sku":"9781013291579","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d163c803-6982-4df2-9a06-7cae1bb94d99.jpg?v=1748770992","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-logic-of-invention-roy-wagner-9781013291579","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}