1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910476758103321

Autore

Rees Tobias

Titolo

After ethnos / / Tobias Rees

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2018

ISBN

1-4780-0228-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 pages)

Classificazione

LB 29000

Disciplina

301

Soggetti

Anthropology

Anthropology - Philosophy

Ethnology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

All of it -- On anthropology (free from ethnos) -- Anthropology and philosophy (differently) -- Philosophy/philosophy -- Thought/abstract, thought/concrete (the problem with modernism) -- Friction (the already thought and known) -- Of the human (after "the human") -- Cataloguing -- Anti-humanism -- A disregard for theory -- No ontology -- On the field (itself) -- Difference(s) in time (assemblages) -- Not history -- Epochal (no more) -- On the actual (rather than the emergent) -- The new/different (of movement / in terms of movement) -- Why and to what ends (philosophy, politics, poetry) -- Coda: a dictionary of (anthropological) common places -- One last question.

Sommario/riassunto

For most of the twentieth century, anthropologists understood themselves as ethnographers. The art of anthropology was the fieldwork-based description of faraway others—of how social structures secretly organized the living-together of a given society, of how a people had endowed the world surrounding them with cultural meaning. While the poetics and politics of anthropology have changed dramatically over the course of a century, the basic equation of anthropology with ethnography—as well as the definition of the human as a social and cultural being—has remained so evident that the possibility of questioning it occurred to hardly anyone. In After Ethnos Tobias Rees endeavors to decouple anthropology from ethnography—



and the human from society and culture—and explores the manifold possibilities of practicing a question-based rather than an answer-based anthropology that emanates from this decoupling. What emerges from Rees's provocations is a new understanding of anthropology as a philosophically and poetically inclined, fieldwork-based investigation of what it could mean to be human when the established concepts of the human on which anthropology has been built increasingly fail us.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964796303321

Autore

Sorensen Roy A.

Titolo

Pseudo-problems : how analytic philosophy gets done / / Roy A. Sorensen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1993

ISBN

1-134-86852-9

1-280-18251-2

0-203-30408-X

1-134-86853-7

0-203-04868-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Disciplina

146/.4

Soggetti

Analysis (Philosophy)

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. [273]-281) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Question quality control -- Get 'real'! -- Problems with 'pseudo-problems' -- The soft consensual underbelly of dispute; #?'!+@mean@ingl ss*ne -- The devil's volleyball -- Popped presuppositions -- The unity of opposites -- Forging the stream of consciousness -- Beyond our ken -- The edge of reason -- Undermining the undeserving -- Enlightened tasks -- Depth.

Sommario/riassunto

A fast-moving, fascinating alternative history of twentieth century analytic philosophy. Using many examples, Sorenson explains how problems are dissolved rather than solved. This is a fine example of what philosophical analysis should be.