LEADER 05037nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910811007603321 005 20210921033210.0 010 $a1-4008-1600-9 010 $a1-4008-2340-4 010 $a9786613057945 010 $a1-283-05794-8 010 $a1-4008-1412-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400823406 035 $a(CKB)111056486504636 035 $a(EBL)675893 035 $a(OCoLC)52305355 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000108070 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11703694 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000108070 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10017702 035 $a(PQKB)10802668 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000517208 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12251003 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000517208 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10487505 035 $a(PQKB)11603601 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36387 035 $a(DE-B1597)446608 035 $a(OCoLC)979757317 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400823406 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL675893 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10460252 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL305794 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC675893 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486504636 100 $a19991019e20001983 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAvailable light $eanthropological reflections on philosophical topics /$fClifford Geertz 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 300 $aArticles previously published chiefly 1983-1999. 311 0 $a0-691-08956-6 311 0 $a0-691-04974-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tI. Passage and Accident: A Life of Learning --$tII. Thinking as a Moral Act: Ethical Dimensions of Anthropological Fieldwork in the New States --$tIII. Anti Anti-Relativism --$tIV. The Uses of Diversity --$tV. The State of the Art --$tVI. The Strange Estrangement: Charles Taylor and the Natural Sciences --$tVII. The Legacy of Thomas Kuhn: The Right Text at the Right Time --$tVIII. The Pinch of Destiny: Religion as Experience, Meaning, Identity, Power --$tIX. Imbalancing Act: Jerome Bruner's Cultural Psychology --$tX. Culture, Mind, Brain / Brain, Mind, Culture --$tXI. The World in Pieces: Culture and Politics at the End of the Century --$tIndex 330 $aClifford Geertz, one of the most influential thinkers of our time, here discusses some of the most urgent issues facing intellectuals today. In this collection of personal and revealing essays, he explores the nature of his anthropological work in relation to a broader public, serving as the foremost spokesperson of his generation of scholars, those who came of age after World War II. His reflections are written in a style that both entertains and disconcerts, as they engage us in topics ranging from moral relativism to the relationship between cultural and psychological differences, from the diversity and tension among activist faiths to "ethnic conflict" in today's politics. Geertz, who once considered a career in philosophy, begins by explaining how he got swept into the revolutionary movement of symbolic anthropology. At that point, his work began to encompass not only the ethnography of groups in Southeast Asia and North Africa, but also the study of how meaning is made in all cultures--or, to use his phrase, to explore the "frames of meaning" in which people everywhere live out their lives. His philosophical orientation helped him to establish the role of anthropology within broader intellectual circles and led him to address the work of such leading thinkers as Charles Taylor, Thomas Kuhn, William James, and Jerome Bruner. In this volume, Geertz comments on their work as he explores questions in political philosophy, psychology, and religion that have intrigued him throughout his career but that now hold particular relevance in light of postmodernist thinking and multiculturalism. Available Light offers insightful discussions of concepts such as nation, identity, country, and self, with a reminder that like symbols in general, their meanings are not categorically fixed but grow and change through time and place. This book treats the reader to an analysis of the American intellectual climate by someone who did much to shape it. One can read Available Light both for its revelation of public culture in its dynamic, evolving forms and for the story it tells about the remarkable adventures of an innovator during the "golden years" of American academia. 606 $aEthnology 606 $aPhilosophy 606 $aCultural pluralism 615 0$aEthnology. 615 0$aPhilosophy. 615 0$aCultural pluralism. 676 $a306 700 $aGeertz$b Clifford$0124201 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811007603321 996 $aAvailable light$91229180 997 $aUNINA