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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480124403321

Titolo

Reflecting on reflexivity : the human condition as an ontological surprise / / edited by Terry Evens, Don Handelman, and Christopher Roberts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-78238-753-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 p.)

Disciplina

128

Soggetti

Human beings - Philosophy

Reflection (Philosophy)

Self (Philosophy)

Philosophical anthropology

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 at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Reflecting on Reflexivity; Reflecting on Reflexivity - The Human Condition as an Ontological Surprise; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Section I - Reflexivity, Social Science, and Ethics; 1 - Is There a Difference between Doing Good and Doing Good Research?; 2 - The Ethic of Being Wrong; 3 - Cosmopolitan Reflexivity; 4 - Religionist Reflexivity and the Machiavellian Believer; Section II - Reflexivity, Practice, and Embodiment; 5 - Wittgenstein's Critique of Representation and the Ethical Reflexivity of Anthropological Discourse; 6 - Human Cockfighting in the Squared Circle

7 - Perfect Praxis in AikidoSection III - Reflexivity, Self, and Other; 8 - Tension, Reflection, and Agency in the Life of a Hausa Grain Trader; 9 - Reflexivity in Intersubjective and Intercultural Borderlinking; Section IV - Reflexivity, Democracy, and Government; 10 - The Latent Effects of the Distribution of Political Reflexivity in Contemporary Democracies; Postscript - Reflexivity and Social Science; Index