The Mythology in Our Language â" Remarks on Frazer`s Golden Bough

"Palmi?'s new translation of Wittgenstein's Remarks on Frazer's "Golden Bough", joined to a set of super-commentaries by anthropological luminaries, is revelatory. This volume restores Wittgenstein's Remarks to its own lifeworld. In the process, Wittgenstein's intervention appears again as necessary, and as necessarily unfinished, today as it was in mid-century. An invigorating, dazzling contribution carried out with rare intellectual care."--Paul C. Johnson, editor of "Comparative Studies in Society and History"
"This volume is an important intellectual event--in particular, because of the decisions by the editors to showcase some of the most important anthropological perspectives on this text. This will perhaps be taken as a provocation by philosophers, but for me, the strength of this project lies both in its teaching and in its content: after all, many philosophers, including Wittgenstein, have had no problem proclaiming that they are doing anthropology. It is now anthropology's turn--as an established discipline in its own right--to take on this text and its significance and provocation for it."--Sandra Laugier, author of "Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy"
"Wittgenstein's engagement with Frazer's "Golden Bough" was one of the most remarkable intellectual encounters of the 20th century. With Frazer, the young discipline of anthropology had staked a claim to hold the secret to answering the question of what it is to be human. Wittgenstein found much in anthropological inquiry that was relevant to his thoughts on language, meaning and understanding, though for that he had to overturn many of Frazer's fundamental assumptions, out-anthropologising, one might say, the anthropologist This series of commentaries brilliantly demonstrates how crucial the issues raised in this exchange remain."-- "Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd, author of "The Ambivalences of Rationality: Ancient and Modern Cross-Cultural Explorations""