Anthropology as Ethics: Nondualism and the Conduct of Sacrifice
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T. M. S. (Terry) Evens is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received his Ph.D. at the University of Manchester in 1971. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Chicago, the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, the University of Calcutta, and Asmara University, Eritrea. He is author of Two Kinds of Rationality: Kibbutz Democracy and Generational Conflict (1995), and co-editor of the collections, Transcendence in Society: Case Studies (1990) and The Manchester School: Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology (2006). Drawn especially to theory and phenomenology, he has sought from the beginnings of his professional career to isolate, identify, and critically explore philosophical underpinnings of empirical anthropology.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781845456290 |
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Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
Publication date: | 05/01/2009 |
Pages: | 418 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
T. M. S. (Terry) Evens is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received his Ph.D. at the University of Manchester in 1971. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Chicago, the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, the University of Calcutta, and Asmara University, Eritrea. He is author of Two Kinds of Rationality: Kibbutz Democracy and Generational Conflict (1995), and co-editor of the collections, Transcendence in Society: Case Studies (1990) and The Manchester School: Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology (2006). Drawn especially to theory and phenomenology, he has sought from the beginnings of his professional career to isolate, identify, and critically explore philosophical underpinnings of empirical anthropology.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Organization and Key UsagesIntroduction: Nondualism, Ontology, and Anthropology
PART I: THE ETHNOGRAPHIC SELF: THE SOCIO-POLITICAL PATHOLOGY OF MODERNITY
Chapter 1. Anthropology and the Synthetic a Priori: Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty Chapter 2. Blind Faith and the Binding of Isaac—the Akedah Chapter 3. Excursus I: Sacrifice as Human Existence Chapter 4. Counter-Sacrifice and Instrumental Reason—the Holocaust Chapter 5. Bourdieu’s Anti-dualism and “Generalized Materialism” Chapter 6. Habermas’s Anti-dualism and “Communicative Rationality”
PART II: THE ETHNOGRAPHIC OTHER: THE ETHICAL OPENNESS OF ARCHAIC UNDERSTANDING
Chapter 7. Technological Efficacy, Mythic Rationality, and Non-contradiction Chapter 8. Epistemic Efficacy, Mythic Rationality, and Non-contradiction Chapter 9. Contradiction and Choice among the Dinka and in Genesis Chapter 10. Contradiction in Azande Oracular Practice and in Psychotherapeutic Interaction
PART III: FROM MYTHIC TO VALUE-RATIONALITY: TOWARD ETHICAL GAIN
Chapter 11. Epistemic and Ethical Gain Chapter 12. Transcending Dualism and Amplifying Choice Chapter 13. Excursus II: What Good, Ethics? Chapter 14. Anthropology and the Generative Primacy of Moral Order
Conclusion: Emancipatory Selfhood and Value-Rationality
Notes References Index