How Geertz Helped to Socialize Ryle
I have not uploaded a post for couple of months so I decided to write a short post about what currently occupies me. My blog is not dead, not yet! First of all, I work on a paper for the annual conference of AntropoWeb which will be held in Pilsen from 17 to 19 October this year. My paper will be about my experience with studying anthropology at the Durham University. To be honest the word “work” is far from being true - I have not started yet. But I will start... soon. Do not worry if you are unable to take part, the subsequent article will be in English. Secondly, I work on a paper about the famous anthropologist, all-star intellectual who helped a vast public make sense of the human condition (in Robert Darnton’s words), Clifford Geertz. I have been engaged with Geertz’s theory since wrote my first really academic article. In that article I argued that Geertz’s theory of religion contributes little to our understanding of religion and that very similar framework for studyi...