[HN Gopher] Metaperson: The enchanted worlds of Marshall Sahlins
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       Metaperson: The enchanted worlds of Marshall Sahlins
        
       Author : Hooke
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2024-03-08 16:24 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | StopTheWorld wrote:
       | Didn't expect to learn about Sahlins posthumous book via HN's
       | front page. Stone-Age Economics and The Original Affluent Society
       | (the title a pun on a book well-known by 1960s intelligentsia,
       | Galbraith's "The Affluent Society") were interesting reads.
        
         | zubairq wrote:
         | Yes I was surprised to see this on HN too
        
       | christudor wrote:
       | Sahlins' 'Apologies to Thucydides' is one of THE best non-fiction
       | books I've ever read.
        
       | ganzuul wrote:
       | The definition of transcendence in operation here seems to be
       | informed by death, where a being leaves something behind and
       | becomes something else. There is another definition of
       | transcendence which is not informed by death but by eternity,
       | where a being expands their sense of self while preserving what
       | was pre-existent.
        
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