Disappointment : Toward a Critical Hermeneutics of Worldbuilding / Jarrett Zigon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zigon, Jarrett, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hermeneutics.

Ontology.

Political ethics.

Marginality, Social.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Increasingly, anthropologists, political theorists and philosophers are calling for imaginative and creative analyses and theories that might help us think and bring about an otherwise. Disappointment responds to this call by showing how collaboration between an anthropologist and a political movement of marginalized peoples can disclose new possibilities for being and acting politically. Drawing from nearly a decade of research with the global anti-drug war movement, Jarrett Zigon puts ethnography in dialogue with both political theory and continental philosophy to rethink some of the most fundamental ontological, political and ethical concepts. The result is to show that ontological starting points have real political implications, and thus, how an alternative ontological starting point can lead to new possibilities for building worlds more ethically attuned to their inhabitants.

Contents:

Frontmatter

contents

Introduction

chapter 1. The Effective History of Rights

chapter 2. Progress; or, The Repetition of Differential Sameness

chapter 3. Worlds and Situations

chapter 4. An Ethics of Dwelling

chapter 5. Worldbuilding and Attunement

Epilogue: Critical Hermeneutics

acknowledgments

notes

index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

0-8232-7826-3

OCLC:

1028952899