Anthropology as ethics :
Evens, T. M. S.
Anthropology as ethics : nondualism and the conduct of sacrifice / T.M.S. Evens. - New York : Berghahn Books, 2008. - xxiv, 392 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-375) and index.
Nondualism, ontology, and anthropology -- Anthropology and the synthetic a priori: Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty -- Blind faith and the binding of Isaac: the Akedah -- Excursus I: sacrifice as human existence -- Counter-sacrifice and instrumental reason: the Holocaust -- Bourdieu's anti-dualism and "generalized materialism" -- Habermas's anti-dualism and "communicative rationality" -- Technological efficacy, mythic rationality, and non-contradiction -- Epistemic efficacy, mythic rationality, and non-contradiction -- Contradiction and choice among the Dinka and in Genesis -- Contradiction in Azande oracular practice and in psychotherapeutic interaction -- Epistemic and ethical gain -- Transcending dualism and amplifying choice -- Excursus II: what good, ethics? -- Anthropology and the generative primacy of moral order -- Conclusion: Emancipatory selfhood and value-rationality.
1845452240 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781845452247 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2006100541
Ethics.
Dualism.
Sacrifice.
Anthropology--Philosophy.
BJ1031 / .E94 2008
301.01
Anthropology as ethics : nondualism and the conduct of sacrifice / T.M.S. Evens. - New York : Berghahn Books, 2008. - xxiv, 392 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-375) and index.
Nondualism, ontology, and anthropology -- Anthropology and the synthetic a priori: Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty -- Blind faith and the binding of Isaac: the Akedah -- Excursus I: sacrifice as human existence -- Counter-sacrifice and instrumental reason: the Holocaust -- Bourdieu's anti-dualism and "generalized materialism" -- Habermas's anti-dualism and "communicative rationality" -- Technological efficacy, mythic rationality, and non-contradiction -- Epistemic efficacy, mythic rationality, and non-contradiction -- Contradiction and choice among the Dinka and in Genesis -- Contradiction in Azande oracular practice and in psychotherapeutic interaction -- Epistemic and ethical gain -- Transcending dualism and amplifying choice -- Excursus II: what good, ethics? -- Anthropology and the generative primacy of moral order -- Conclusion: Emancipatory selfhood and value-rationality.
1845452240 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781845452247 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2006100541
Ethics.
Dualism.
Sacrifice.
Anthropology--Philosophy.
BJ1031 / .E94 2008
301.01