Trickster Makes This World: How Disruptive Imagination Creates Culture by Lewis Hyde

Trickster Makes This World: How Disruptive Imagination Creates Culture

Lewis Hyde

432 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction art history philosophy challenging informative slow-paced

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"Trickster disrupted the world around him, and in doing so he reshaped it. Playful, mischievous, subversive, amoral, tricksters are a great bother to have around, but they are also indispensable heroes of culture. Trickster Makes This World revisi...

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informative 63%
reflective 63%
adventurous 27%
challenging 27%
mysterious 27%
funny 18%
inspiring 18%

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