Anthropology as ethics [[electronic resource] ] : nondualism and the conduct of sacrifice / / T.M.S. Evens
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| Autore: |
Evens T. M. S
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| Titolo: |
Anthropology as ethics [[electronic resource] ] : nondualism and the conduct of sacrifice / / T.M.S. Evens
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Berghahn Books, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 301.01 |
| Soggetto topico: | Ethics |
| Dualism | |
| Sacrifice | |
| Anthropology - Philosophy | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-375) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 demonstrat |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Anthropology as ethics |
| ISBN: | 1-282-62658-2 |
| 9786612626586 | |
| 0-85745-006-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910493680303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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