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Author Evens, T. M. S.

Title Anthropology as ethics [electronic resource] : nondualism and the conduct of sacrifice / T.M.S. Evens.

Imprint New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.

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Description xxiv, 392 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-375) and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Ethics.
Dualism.
Sacrifice.
Anthropology -- Philosophy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 1845452240 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781845452247 (hardcover : alk. paper)

 
    
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