Gregory Schrempp
Biographic Data
| ID | 85165 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory Schrempp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory |
| FAMILY NAME | Schrempp |
| SIGNATURE | SCHREMPP G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Social Origins of Thought: Durkheim, Mauss, and the Category Project
By studying how different societies understand categories such as time and causality, the Durkheimians decentered Western epistemology. With contributions from philosophy, sociology, anthropology, media studies, and sinology, this volume illustrates the interdisciplinarity and intellectual rigor of the “category project” which did not only stir controversies among contemporary scholars but paved the way for other theories exploring how the though…
The possibility of life
In a 2012 critique of John D. Barrow's The artful universe, I explored the problems inherent in attempting to predict what can and cannot happen-what is and is not possible-in the universe, with special reference to the emergence of life, consciousness, and culture. In the present essay, I revisit my arguments in light of new works that have appeared on this topic. I also argue that such cosmic debates have counterparts in familiar anthropologica…
Voicing the ancestors: Readings in memory of George Stocking
In this Forum, four anthropologists have chosen an "ancestral" figure to give voice to. Anthropologists' ancestors are generally teachers, mentors, or, less proximally, canonized scholars of prior generations. Anthropologists draw on their ancestors for theoretical wisdom and practical guidance. Yet ancestors are not always shared broadly across our discipline, and they can easily fall into oblivion. Giving voice to them, publicly, allows each co…
Priori: A Mythologist Looks at Popular Science Writing
Ancient Mythology of Modern Science: A Mythologist Looks (Seriously) at Popular Science Writing
Copernican kinship: An Origin Myth for the Category
In many traditional mythologies, kinship constitutes the privileged idiom of both unity and diversity in the cosmos. In "post-mythological" thought, categories logically conceived attempt to take over the cosmic role of kinship. I compare two accounts of the nature and genesis of categories-those by Durkheim and Mauss on one hand, and by Lakoff and Johnson on the other. Neither account severs ties with mythology or kinship; moreover, the structur…
Taking the Dawkins Challenge, or, The Dark Side of the Meme
My thesis is that meme theory and rhetoric take unusual turns when confronting the problem of evil. Focusing on works by Richard Dawkins and Jack Zipes, I consider three levels at which this confrontation takes place. The first is the everyday selfishness and self-promotion attributed to memes as intrinsic to their mode of propagation. The second concerns memes whose content affronts present-day morality (e.g., memes that portray parents eating o…
The Modern Construction of Myth
The Modern Construction of Myth. By Andrew Von Hendy. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. $39.95 cloth) This is a large, sophisticated study of currents in theory of myth from the eighteenth century onward, bringing together works from a number of disciplines and reminding the reader how broad-spread academic interest in myth is (spanning literature, social sciences, classics, philosophy, and semiotics, among others). Although Von H…
The Epic Voice
Epic Voice. Edited by Alan D. Hodder and Robert E. Meagher. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. Pp. 157, introduction, illustrations, maps, notes, index. $54.95 cloth, $15.00 paper); How to Read an Oral Poem. By John Miles Foley. (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Pp xviii + 256, prologue, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. $44.95 cloth, $19.95 paper); Myth: A New Symposium. Edited by Gregory Schrempp and William Hansen. (Bloomington…
The Demon-Haunted World: Folklore and Fear of Regression at the End of the Millennium
Gregory Schrempp, The Demon-Haunted World: Folklore and Fear of Regression at the End of the Millennium, The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 111, No. 441, Folklore: What's in a Name? (Summer, 1998), pp. 247-256
Our funny universe: On Aristotle's metaphysics, Oring's theory of humor, and other appropriate incongruities
Magic, Science, Religion, and the Scope of Rationality. STANLEY J. Tambiah
Magical Arrows: The Maoris, the Greeks, and the Folklore of the Universe
Magical Arrows: The Maori, The Greeks, And The Folklore Of The Universe
A fascinating and sophisticated exploration of cosmology, Magical Arrows connects the Western philosophical tradition with the cosmological traditions of non-Western societies, particularly those of Polynesia. Using the mythology and philosophy of the Maori of New Zealand as a counterpoint to Western thought, Schrempp finds a philosophical common denominator in the thought of the pre-Socratic philosopher, Zeno of Elea. Schrempp suggests that the …
The Anthropology of Numbers. THOMAS CRUMP
Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology
Preface Introduction Sources The Dictionary Appendix: Categories of Gods and Goddesses Index
The Re-Education of Friedrich Max Muller: Intellectual Appropriation and Epistemological Antinomy in Mid-Victorian Evolutionary Thought
Ancient Mythology of Modern Science: A Mythologist Looks (Seriously) at Popular Science Writing
The Re-Education of Friedrich Max Muller: Intellectual Appropriation and Epistemological Antinomy in Mid-Victorian Evolutionary Thought
Voicing the ancestors: Readings in memory of George Stocking
In this Forum, four anthropologists have chosen an "ancestral" figure to give voice to. Anthropologists' ancestors are generally teachers, mentors, or, less proximally, canonized scholars of prior generations. Anthropologists draw on their ancestors for theoretical wisdom and practical guidance. Yet ancestors are not always shared broadly across our discipline, and they can easily fall into oblivion. Giving voice to them, publicly, allows each co…
Taking the Dawkins Challenge, or, The Dark Side of the Meme
My thesis is that meme theory and rhetoric take unusual turns when confronting the problem of evil. Focusing on works by Richard Dawkins and Jack Zipes, I consider three levels at which this confrontation takes place. The first is the everyday selfishness and self-promotion attributed to memes as intrinsic to their mode of propagation. The second concerns memes whose content affronts present-day morality (e.g., memes that portray parents eating o…
Copernican kinship: An Origin Myth for the Category
In many traditional mythologies, kinship constitutes the privileged idiom of both unity and diversity in the cosmos. In "post-mythological" thought, categories logically conceived attempt to take over the cosmic role of kinship. I compare two accounts of the nature and genesis of categories-those by Durkheim and Mauss on one hand, and by Lakoff and Johnson on the other. Neither account severs ties with mythology or kinship; moreover, the structur…
Our funny universe: On Aristotle's metaphysics, Oring's theory of humor, and other appropriate incongruities
The possibility of life
In a 2012 critique of John D. Barrow's The artful universe, I explored the problems inherent in attempting to predict what can and cannot happen-what is and is not possible-in the universe, with special reference to the emergence of life, consciousness, and culture. In the present essay, I revisit my arguments in light of new works that have appeared on this topic. I also argue that such cosmic debates have counterparts in familiar anthropologica…
The Demon-Haunted World: Folklore and Fear of Regression at the End of the Millennium
Gregory Schrempp, The Demon-Haunted World: Folklore and Fear of Regression at the End of the Millennium, The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 111, No. 441, Folklore: What's in a Name? (Summer, 1998), pp. 247-256
The Re-Education of Friedrich Max Muller: Intellectual Appropriation and Epistemological Antinomy in Mid-Victorian Evolutionary Thought
Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology
Preface Introduction Sources The Dictionary Appendix: Categories of Gods and Goddesses Index
Magical Arrows: The Maori, The Greeks, And The Folklore Of The Universe
A fascinating and sophisticated exploration of cosmology, Magical Arrows connects the Western philosophical tradition with the cosmological traditions of non-Western societies, particularly those of Polynesia. Using the mythology and philosophy of the Maori of New Zealand as a counterpoint to Western thought, Schrempp finds a philosophical common denominator in the thought of the pre-Socratic philosopher, Zeno of Elea. Schrempp suggests that the …
The Anthropology of Numbers. THOMAS CRUMP
Magical Arrows: The Maoris, the Greeks, and the Folklore of the Universe
Magic, Science, Religion, and the Scope of Rationality. STANLEY J. Tambiah
Our funny universe: On Aristotle's metaphysics, Oring's theory of humor, and other appropriate incongruities
The Demon-Haunted World: Folklore and Fear of Regression at the End of the Millennium
Gregory Schrempp, The Demon-Haunted World: Folklore and Fear of Regression at the End of the Millennium, The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 111, No. 441, Folklore: What's in a Name? (Summer, 1998), pp. 247-256
The Modern Construction of Myth
The Modern Construction of Myth. By Andrew Von Hendy. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. $39.95 cloth) This is a large, sophisticated study of currents in theory of myth from the eighteenth century onward, bringing together works from a number of disciplines and reminding the reader how broad-spread academic interest in myth is (spanning literature, social sciences, classics, philosophy, and semiotics, among others). Although Von H…
The Epic Voice
Epic Voice. Edited by Alan D. Hodder and Robert E. Meagher. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. Pp. 157, introduction, illustrations, maps, notes, index. $54.95 cloth, $15.00 paper); How to Read an Oral Poem. By John Miles Foley. (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Pp xviii + 256, prologue, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. $44.95 cloth, $19.95 paper); Myth: A New Symposium. Edited by Gregory Schrempp and William Hansen. (Bloomington…
Taking the Dawkins Challenge, or, The Dark Side of the Meme
My thesis is that meme theory and rhetoric take unusual turns when confronting the problem of evil. Focusing on works by Richard Dawkins and Jack Zipes, I consider three levels at which this confrontation takes place. The first is the everyday selfishness and self-promotion attributed to memes as intrinsic to their mode of propagation. The second concerns memes whose content affronts present-day morality (e.g., memes that portray parents eating o…
Copernican kinship: An Origin Myth for the Category
In many traditional mythologies, kinship constitutes the privileged idiom of both unity and diversity in the cosmos. In "post-mythological" thought, categories logically conceived attempt to take over the cosmic role of kinship. I compare two accounts of the nature and genesis of categories-those by Durkheim and Mauss on one hand, and by Lakoff and Johnson on the other. Neither account severs ties with mythology or kinship; moreover, the structur…
Priori: A Mythologist Looks at Popular Science Writing
Ancient Mythology of Modern Science: A Mythologist Looks (Seriously) at Popular Science Writing
Voicing the ancestors: Readings in memory of George Stocking
In this Forum, four anthropologists have chosen an "ancestral" figure to give voice to. Anthropologists' ancestors are generally teachers, mentors, or, less proximally, canonized scholars of prior generations. Anthropologists draw on their ancestors for theoretical wisdom and practical guidance. Yet ancestors are not always shared broadly across our discipline, and they can easily fall into oblivion. Giving voice to them, publicly, allows each co…
The possibility of life
In a 2012 critique of John D. Barrow's The artful universe, I explored the problems inherent in attempting to predict what can and cannot happen-what is and is not possible-in the universe, with special reference to the emergence of life, consciousness, and culture. In the present essay, I revisit my arguments in light of new works that have appeared on this topic. I also argue that such cosmic debates have counterparts in familiar anthropologica…
The Social Origins of Thought: Durkheim, Mauss, and the Category Project
By studying how different societies understand categories such as time and causality, the Durkheimians decentered Western epistemology. With contributions from philosophy, sociology, anthropology, media studies, and sinology, this volume illustrates the interdisciplinarity and intellectual rigor of the “category project” which did not only stir controversies among contemporary scholars but paved the way for other theories exploring how the though…
Philosophy (10 works) · Art (8 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · History (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Classics (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Mythology (6 works) · Evolution and Science Education (4 works)