Philosophy and anthropology : border crossing and transformations / edited by Ananta Kumar Giri and John Clammer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Giri, Ananta Kumar.

Clammer, J. R.

Series:

Key issues in modern sociology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophical anthropology.

Anthropology--Philosophy.

Anthropology.

Physical Description:

xvi, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Anthem Press, 2013.

Summary:

Anthropology and philosophy have long been intellectual companions; the borders between the two disciplines have always been permeable. And yet the fuller history and implications of philosophical influences in anthropology have largely been left unaddressed. The essays in Philosophy and Anthropology: Border Crossings and Transformations discuss the threefold division within the anthropological engagement with philosophy, the sources and history of philosophical anthropology, and its current applications and links with other contemporary intellectual movements. This volume seeks to engage with real social and humanitarian issues of the current age and to foster an innovative discipline: philosophical anthropology. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction philosophy and anthropology in dialogues and conversations / John Clammer and Ananta Kumar Giri

Nurturing the field: towards mutual fecundation and transformation of philosophy and anthropology

The project of philosophical anthropology / John Clammer

The self-preservation of man: remarks on the relation between modernity and philosophical anthropology / Kasper Lysemose

Whither modernity? hybridization, postoccidentalism, postdevelopment and transmodernity / Ivan Marquez

Philosophical anthropology and philosophy in anthropology / Vaclav Brezina

The engagement of philosophy and anthropology in the interpretive turn and beyond: towards an anthropology of the contemporary / Heike Kämpf

Mediation through cognitive dynamics: philosophical anthropology and the conflicts of our time / Piet Strydom

Philosophy as anthropocentrism: language, life and aporia / Prasenjit Biswas

Sources of philosophical anthropology

Kant and anthropology / Ananta Kumar Giri

Dilthey's theory of knowledge and its potential for anthropological theory / Daniel Šuber

Malinowski and philosophy / Peter Skalník

Ground, self, sign: the semiotic theories of charles sanders peirce and their applications in social anthropology / Lars Kjaerholm

Ricoeur's challenge for a twenty-first century anthropology / Betsy Taylor

Clifford geertz: the philosophical transformation of anthropology / Gernot Saalmann

Bakhtin's heritage in anthropology: alterity and dialogue / Marcin Brocki

The philosophy of slavoj ¿i¿ek and anthropology: the current situation and possible futures / Lars Kjaerholm

Border crossings between anthropology and buddhist philosophy / Susantha Goonatilake

Philosophical anthropology at work

Anthropology of philosophy in africa: the ethnography of critical discourse and intellectual practice / Kai Kresse

Albinos do not die: belief, philosophy and anthropology / João de Pina-Cabral

Anthropology, development and the myth of culture / Robert Feleppa

Notions of friendship in philosophical and anthropological thought

Heidrun friese

Afterword the return of philosophical anthropology / Fred Dallmayr.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780857285126

0857285122

OCLC:

862041452