Anthropology as ethics
Subtitle: nondualism and the conduct of sacrifice
By: T.M.S. Evens.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781845452247
Subjects: Ethics.; Dualism.; Sacrifice.; Anthropology -- Philosophy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-375) and index.
Table of contents: value: Nondualism, ontology, and anthropology; value: Anthropology and the synthetic a priori: Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty; value: Blind faith and the binding of Isaac: the Akedah; value: Excursus I: sacrifice as human existence; value: Counter-sacrifice and instrumental reason: the Holocaust; value: Bourdieu's anti-dualism and "generalized materialism"; value: Habermas's anti-dualism and "communicative rationality"; value: Technological efficacy, mythic rationality, and non-contradiction; value: Epistemic efficacy, mythic rationality, and non-contradiction; value: Contradiction and choice among the Dinka and in Genesis; value: Contradiction in Azande oracular practice and in psychotherapeutic interaction; value: Epistemic and ethical gain; value: Transcending dualism and amplifying choice; value: Excursus II: what good, ethics?; value: Anthropology and the generative primacy of moral order; value: Conclusion: Emancipatory selfhood and value-rationality.