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Reflecting on reflexivity : the human condition as an ontological surprise / edited by Terry Evens, Don Handelman, and Christopher Roberts.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human beings--Philosophy.
- Human beings.
- Reflection (Philosophy).
- Self (Philosophy).
- Philosophical anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (324 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Humanness supposes innate and profound reflexivity. This volume approaches the concept of reflexivity on two different yet related analytical planes. Whether implicitly or explicitly, both planes of thought bear critically on reflexivity in relation to the nature of selfhood and the very idea of the autonomous individual, ethics, and humanness, science as such and social science, ontological dualism and fundamental ambiguity. On the one plane, a collection of original and innovative ethnographically based essays is offered, each of which is devoted to ways in which reflexivity plays a fundamental role in human social life and the study of it; on the other—anthropo-philosophical and developed in the volume’s Preface, Introduction, and Postscript—it is argued that reflexivity distinguishes—definitively, albeit relatively—the being and becoming of the human.
- Contents:
- Reflecting on Reflexivity; Reflecting on Reflexivity - The Human Condition as an Ontological Surprise; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Section I - Reflexivity, Social Science, and Ethics; 1 - Is There a Difference between Doing Good and Doing Good Research?; 2 - The Ethic of Being Wrong; 3 - Cosmopolitan Reflexivity; 4 - Religionist Reflexivity and the Machiavellian Believer; Section II - Reflexivity, Practice, and Embodiment; 5 - Wittgenstein's Critique of Representation and the Ethical Reflexivity of Anthropological Discourse; 6 - Human Cockfighting in the Squared Circle
- 7 - Perfect Praxis in AikidoSection III - Reflexivity, Self, and Other; 8 - Tension, Reflection, and Agency in the Life of a Hausa Grain Trader; 9 - Reflexivity in Intersubjective and Intercultural Borderlinking; Section IV - Reflexivity, Democracy, and Government; 10 - The Latent Effects of the Distribution of Political Reflexivity in Contemporary Democracies; Postscript - Reflexivity and Social Science; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-80758-464-X
- 1-78238-753-6
- OCLC:
- 945034294
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