| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 392 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-375) and index. |
| Contents |
Nondualism, ontology, and anthropology -- Anthropology and the synthetic a priori: Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty -- Blind faith and the binding of Isaac: the Akedah -- Excursus I: sacrifice as human existence -- Counter-sacrifice and instrumental reason: the Holocaust -- Bourdieu's anti-dualism and "generalized materialism" -- Habermas's anti-dualism and "communicative rationality" -- Technological efficacy, mythic rationality, and non-contradiction -- Epistemic efficacy, mythic rationality, and non-contradiction -- Contradiction and choice among the Dinka and in Genesis -- Contradiction in Azande oracular practice and in psychotherapeutic interaction -- Epistemic and ethical gain -- Transcending dualism and amplifying choice -- Excursus II: what good, ethics? -- Anthropology and the generative primacy of moral order -- Conclusion: Emancipatory selfhood and value-rationality. |
| Summary |
Anthropology as Ethics is concerned with rethinking anthropology by rethinking the nature of reality. It develops the ontological implications of a defining thesis of the Manchester School: that all social orders exhibit basically conflicting underlying principles. Drawing especially on Continental social thought, including Wittgenstein, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Dumont, Bourdieu and others, and on pre-modern sources such as the Hebrew bible, the Nuer, the Dinka, and the Azande, the book mounts a radical study of the ontology of self and other in relation to dualism and nondualism. It demonstrat. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ethics.
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Dualism.
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Sacrifice.
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Anthropology -- Philosophy.
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ethics (philosophy) |
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dualism. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Methodology. |
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Anthropology -- Philosophy |
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Dualism |
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Ethics |
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Sacrifice |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Evens, T.M.S. Anthropology as ethics. New York : Berghahn Books, 2008 9781845452247 (DLC) 2006100541 |
| ISBN |
9780857450067 (electronic bk.) |
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0857450069 (electronic bk.) |
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1845452240 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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9781845452247 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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