Critique of identity thinking / Michael Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Michael, 1940- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophical anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, [2019]

Summary:

Recent world-wide political developments have persuaded many people that we are again living in what Hannah Arendt called “dark times.” Jackson’s response to this age of uncertainty is to remind us how much experience falls outside the concepts and categories we habitually deploy in rendering life manageable and intelligible. Drawing on such critical thinkers as Hannah Arendt, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Karl Jaspers, whose work was profoundly influenced by the catastrophes that overwhelmed the world in the middle of the last century, Jackson explores the transformative and redemptive power of marginalized voices in the contemporary conversation of humankind.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Mistaken Identities: The Task of Thinking in Dark Times

Chapter 2. Radical Empiricism and the Little Things of Life

Chapter 3. The Witch as a Category and as a Person

Chapter 4. The New Materialisms

Chapter 5. Words and Deeds

Chapter 6. Critique of Cultural Fundamentalism

Chapter 7. Existential Scarcity and Ethical Sensibility

Chapter 8. Identification and Description: An Essay on Metaphor

Chapter 9. Islam and Identity among the Kuranko

Chapter 10. In Defense of Existential Anthropology

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789202830

1789202833

OCLC:

1303411101