Paper short abstract:

Taking the title by Galbraith as a starting point we are working on an analysis of civilizations, proposing to speak about some of the new ways in which comparative civilizational analysis and political anthropological have recently been interacting.

Paper long abstract:

The term innocent fraud is coined by John Kenneth Galbraith, concerning the impersonal role of market forces. It is this corporate management of a functional anonymity that is the target of the 'Rebel', whose sole purpose is to retain his own entity and virtuous integrity, in winning his own life. In particular, we propose to discuss the role of Charisma and Rebel, as it is portrayed in respective works by Max Weber and Albert Camus, as a way of turning away from depersonalization, which - no matter how innocent it is - is always a fraud.

Readings:

John Kenneth Galbraith, The Economics of Innocent Fraud: Truth for Our Time, Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

Albert Camus, The Rebel/ L'Homme révolté/ A lázadó ember

Agnes Horvath, Modernity and Charisma, Palgrave, 2013

Arpad Szakolczai, Comedy and the Public Sphere, Routledge, 2013