Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Organization and Key Usages
Introduction: 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