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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457362103321

Autore

Evens T. M. S

Titolo

Two kinds of rationality [[electronic resource] ] : Kibbutz democracy and generational conflict / / T.M.S. Evens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1995

ISBN

0-8166-8665-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

Contradictions of modernity ; ; v. 3

Disciplina

307.77/6

Soggetti

Kibbutzim

Democracy - Israel

Conflict of generations - Israel

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-246) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. Dualism and Anthropology; 2. The Kibbutz; 3. Democratic Procedure and Secret Ballot; 4. Conflict between the Generations versus Social Differentiation: The Empirical Picture; 5. Conflict between the Generations as a Normative Expectation; 6. Conflict between the Generations as a Metaphor; 7. Conflict between the Generations as a Primordial Choice: The Paradigm of Genesis; 8. Primordial Choice and ""The Universal"": Kibbutz Familism and the Sexual Division of Labor; 9. The Historical Link between Genesis and Timem's Story: Rousseau as Biblical Redactor

10. Two Kinds of RationalityConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Beginning with a discussion of mind-body dualism in social anthropology, Evens presents a profound theory of human conduct that deploys notions of hierarchy and practice. He uses the case study of an Israeli kibbutz to address the central anthropological problem of rationality. Of particular interest is Evens's interpretation of the Genesis myth, along with his reading of Rousseau's revision of this myth, as a paradigm of generational conflict and the kibbutz's logic of moral order.