Around the Day in Eighty Worlds: Politics of the Pluriverse

Martin Savransky's book "Around the Day in Eighty Worlds" calls for a "pluralistic realism" to understand the world as one and many, ongoing and unfinished, underway and yet to be made. He explores the radical multifariousness of reality by weaving key aspects of William James's thought together with divergent worlds and stories, offering a new conceptualization of the pluriverse that fosters modes of thinking and living otherwise.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 200 pages
\n Publication date: 04 June 2021
\n Publisher: Duke University Press
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In his book "Around the Day in Eighty Worlds," Martin Savransky calls for a radical politics of the pluriverse in response to the ongoing devastation of the present. Drawing on the pragmatic pluralism of William James, he develops a "pluralistic realism" that understands the world as simultaneously one and many, ongoing and unfinished, underway and yet to be made.

Savransky explores the radical multifariousness of reality by weaving key aspects of James's thought together with divergent worlds and stories. These include Magellan's circumnavigation, sorcery in Mozambique, God's felt presence among evangelicals in California, visible spirits in Zambia, and ghosts in the wake of the 2011 tsunami in Japan. Throughout, he experiments with these storied worlds to dramatize new ways of approaching the politics of radical difference and the possibility of transforming reality.

By exploring and constructing relations between James's pluralism and the ontological turn in anthropology, Savransky offers a new conceptualization of the pluriverse that fosters modes of thinking and living otherwise. This book is a powerful exploration of the possibilities for political and social change in a world that is increasingly interconnected and complex.

\n Weight: 306g\n
Dimension: 151 x 228 x 16 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781478014126\n \n