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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780857450067
035 _a(DE-B1597)636485
035 _a(OCoLC)647933050
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082 0 4 _a301.01
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aEvens, T. M. S. (Terry)
_eautore
245 1 0 _aAnthropology as Ethics :
_bNondualism and the Conduct of Sacrifice /
_cT. M. S. (Terry) Evens.
264 1 _aNew York ;
_aOxford :
_bBerghahn Books,
_c[2008]
264 4 _c©2008
300 _a1 online resource (418 p.)
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tOrganization and Key Usages --
_tIntroduction: Nondualism, Ontology, and Anthropology --
_tPart I. The Ethnographic Self --
_t1. Anthropology and the Synthetic a Priori --
_t2. Blind Faith and the Binding of Isaac—the Akedah --
_t3. Excursus I --
_t4. Counter-Sacrifice and Instrumental Reason—the Holocaust --
_t5. Bourdieu’s Anti-dualism and “Generalized Materialism” --
_t6. Habermas’s Anti-dualism and “Communicative Rationality” --
_tPart II. The Ethnographic Other --
_t7. Technological Efficacy, Mythic Rationality, and Non-contradiction --
_t8. Epistemic Efficacy, Mythic Rationality, and Non-contradiction --
_t9. Contradiction and Choice among the Dinka and in Genesis --
_t10. Contradiction in Azande Oracular Practice and in Psychotherapeutic Interaction --
_tPart III. From Mythic to Value-Rationality --
_t11. Epistemic and Ethical Gain --
_t12. Transcending Dualism and Amplifying Choice --
_t13. Excursus II --
_t14. Anthropology and the Generative Primacy of Moral Order --
_tConclusion: Emancipatory Selfhood and Value-Rationality --
_tNotes --
_tReferences --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aAnthropology 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 0 _aAnthropology
_xPhilosophy.
650 0 _aDualism.
650 0 _aEthics.
650 0 _aSacrifice.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
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653 _aTheory and Methodology.
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780857450067
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857450067
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