上海大学社会学院
School of Sociology and Political Science，Shanghai University
上海高校社会学E-研究院（上海大学）系列讲座
2015年第6讲总第369讲
题目：Theater and Ritual：Worlds of Make-Believe
主讲人：Mark Larrimore
Associate Professor,New School University， USA
主持人:张亦农
社会学院教授
时间：2015年1月15日(周四)14:00
地点：B417
主办：社会学院
讲座摘要:
In a time when beliefs seem harder to maintain than ever, ritual is making a comeback. Old practices and new ones are being taken up, and combined, in traditional and untraditional settings. Old rituals take on new meanings, while individuals and groups create new rituals to suit contemporary needs. But what power can rituals really have in the absence of belief? Mark Larrimore approaches this question through a comparison of the world of ritual with that of theater, the paradigmatic world of "make-believe." Looking beyond the origins of theater in religious rituals to enduring ritualistic features in even the most secular modern theater, Larrimore suggests that ritual may flourish especially in the absence of settled belief systems.
主讲人简介：
简历：Mark Larrimore，Associate Professor, Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts PhD, Religion, Princeton University; BA, Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Worcester College, Oxford
专长：The problems of evil and good; historicity of concepts of religion and ethics; race, religion and ethics in Kant; Watsuji Tetsuro
学术成就："Religion and the promise of happiness," Social Research 77/2 (Summer 2010): 569-94
"Theodicy, Disenchantment, and Confucianism’s Place in the Theory of Religion" (in Chinese translation), Cross-cultural Perspectives on East Asian Religious Traditions: A Dialogue, ed. Huang Kuan-min (Contemporary Confucianism Series 25) (Taipei, Taiwan: Academia Sinica Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, 2010), 7-35
"The unwearable lightness of being? Baxter’s cloak for a secular age" and other contributions, Belief Systems (New School Religion-Fashion Seminar zine, 2012)
"Unsettled: On teaching about Aboriginal Australian religion in an American liberal arts college," Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature (December 2012), 223-28
The Book of Job: A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2013)
"Antinomies of Race: Diversity and Destiny in Kant," in Naming Race, Naming Racisms, ed. Jonathan Judaken, 2009
"Evil as Privation: Seeing Darkness, Hearing Silence," in Deliver Us from Evil, ed. M. David Eckel and Bradley L. Herling, 2008
The German Invention of Race, edited with Sara Eigen (SUNY Press), 2006
"Evil" and "Theodicy" in New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, 2005
"Ethical challenges and dangers of mésologie: Watsuji Tetsurô between stasis and contingency," in Modernity in Milieux and Technique, ed. Nobuo Kioka, 2005
"Evil and wonder in early modern philosophy," in Teaching New Histories of Philosophy, ed. J. B. Schneewind, 2004
The Problem of Evil: A Reader (Blackwell), 2001
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上海大学社会学院
School of Sociology and Political Science，Shanghai University
