03238nam 2200625 a 450 991079136360332120170815164402.01-282-62658-297866126265860-85745-006-910.1515/9780857450067(CKB)2560000000012136(EBL)544356(OCoLC)645101017(SSID)ssj0000431850(PQKBManifestationID)12143075(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000431850(PQKBWorkID)10475876(PQKB)10086229(MiAaPQ)EBC544356(DE-B1597)636485(DE-B1597)9780857450067(EXLCZ)99256000000001213620061205d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAnthropology as ethics[electronic resource] nondualism and the conduct of sacrifice /T.M.S. EvensNew York Berghahn Books20081 online resource (416 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84545-629-7 1-84545-224-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-375) and index.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.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 demonstratEthicsDualismSacrificeAnthropologyPhilosophyEthics.Dualism.Sacrifice.AnthropologyPhilosophy.301.01Evens T. M. S1515371MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791363603321Anthropology as ethics3751050UNINA