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Anthropology as ethics : nondualism and the conduct of sacrifice / T.M.S. Evens.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Evens, T. M. S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics.
- Dualism.
- Sacrifice.
- Anthropology--Philosophy.
- Anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (416 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-375) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612626586
- 9781282626584
- 1282626582
- 9780857450067
- 0857450069
- OCLC:
- 645101017
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