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: title: Nondualism, ontology, and anthropology; title: Anthropology and the synthetic a priori: Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty; title: Blind faith and the binding of Isaac: the Akedah; title: Excursus I: sacrifice as human existence; title: Counter-sacrifice and instrumental reason: the Holocaust; title: Bourdieu's anti-dualism and "generalized materialism"; title: Habermas's anti-dualism and "communicative rationality"; title: Technological efficacy, mythic rationality, and non-contradiction; title: Epistemic efficacy, mythic rationality, and non-contradiction; title: Contradiction and choice among the Dinka and in Genesis; title: Contradiction in Azande oracular practice and in psychotherapeutic interaction; title: Epistemic and ethical gain; title: Transcending dualism and amplifying choice; title: Excursus II: what good, ethics?; title: Anthropology and the generative primacy of moral order; title: Conclusion: Emancipatory selfhood and value-rationality.