The Subject of Virtue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Subject of Virtue write by James Laidlaw. This book was released on 2014. The Subject of Virtue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A clearly written, sophisticated summary of and prospectus for a flourishing current field of anthropological research.
Four Lectures on Ethics
Four Lectures on Ethics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Four Lectures on Ethics write by Michael Lambek. This book was released on 2015. Four Lectures on Ethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 4e de couverture: Responding to the challenges from the worlds they study and reflecting critically on their own practice, anthropologists have recently devoted new attention to ethics and morality. This masterclass brings together four of the most eminent scholars working in this field--Michael Lambek, Veena Das, Didier Fassin, and Webb Keane--to discuss, in a lecture format, the way in which anthropology faces contemporary ethical issues and moral problems. Rather than treating ethics as an object or as an isolable domain in moral theory, the authors are interested in grasping how the ethical and the moral emerge from social actions and interactions, how they are related to historical contexts and cultural settings, how they are transformed through their confrontation with the political, and how they are, ultimately, an integral part of life. Contrasting in their perspectives and methods, but developing a lively conversation, this masterclass provides four distinct voices to compose what will be an essential guide for an anthropology of the ethical and the moral in the twenty-first century.
Anthropology as Ethics
Anthropology as Ethics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anthropology as Ethics write by T. M. S. Evens. This book was released on 2009. Anthropology as Ethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 demonstrates how the self-other dichotomy disguises fundamental ambiguity or nondualism, thus obscuring the essentially ethical, dilemmatic, and sacrificial nature of all social life. It also proposes a reason other than dualist, nihilist, and instrumental, one in which logic is seen as both inimical to and continuous with value. Without embracing absolutism, the book makes ambiguity and paradox the foundation of an ethical response to the pervasive anti-foundationalism of much postmodern thought. 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.
An Anthropology of Ethics
An Anthropology of Ethics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Anthropology of Ethics write by James D. Faubion. This book was released on 2011-04-14. An Anthropology of Ethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through an ambitious and critical revision of Michel Foucault's investigation of ethics, James Faubion develops an original program of empirical inquiry into the ethical domain. From an anthropological perspective, Faubion argues that Foucault's specification of the analytical parameters of this domain is the most productive point of departure in conceptualizing its distinctive features. He further argues that Foucault's framework is in need of substantial revision to be of genuinely anthropological scope. In making this revision, Faubion illustrates his program with two extended case studies: one of a Portuguese marquis and the other of a dual subject made up of the author and a millenarian prophetess. The result is a conceptual apparatus that is able to accommodate ethical pluralism and yield an account of the limits of ethical variation, providing a novel resolution of the problem of relativism that has haunted anthropological inquiry into ethics since its inception.
Handbook on Ethical Issues in Anthropology
Handbook on Ethical Issues in Anthropology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handbook on Ethical Issues in Anthropology write by Joan Cassell. This book was released on 1987. Handbook on Ethical Issues in Anthropology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
