Trickster Makes This World
How Disruptive Imagination Creates Culture.
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Release Date: 06/04/2017
How Disruptive Imagination Creates Culture. Trickster disrupted the world around him, and in doing so he reshaped it. Playful, mischievous, subversive, amoral, tricksters are a great bother to have around, but they are also indispensable heroes of culture.
This book from the author of The Gift is about imagination and philosophy and was described by Margaret Atwood as a 'masterpiece'
Trickster Makes This World revisits the stories of Coyote, Eshu and Hermes and holds them up against the life and work of more recent creators: Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Allen Ginsberg, Maxine Hong Kingston and others. Authoritative in its scholarship, supple and dynamic in its style, Trickster Makes This World encourages you to think and see afresh.