Article: Social Being and Time.

This book offers a critique of contemporary social theory and an outline of a new field which the author calls ' philosophical archaeology' an examination of the modes of thought and temporality which bind past to present, and are revealed through an examination of and reflection on material culture. It provides an ambitious, lucid and engrossing tour through a very wide-ranging set of topics, from verstehen to vervets, from Heidegger to mound diggers. Part of the excitement comes from the eclecticism of Gosden's choices. Who would think to probe the meanings of Ricoeur's notion of 'human time' by referring to primate studies? Can Bourdieu's 'habitus' be tested through a ...

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