ISBN:
9781350086630
,
9781350086616
,
9781350086623
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 196 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
2019
Series Statement:
Association of social anthropologists monographs
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als An anthropology of the Enlightenment
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Enlightenment Moral and ethical aspects
;
Enlightenment Social aspects
;
Social history 18th century
;
Ethics
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Anthropologie
;
Sozialethik
;
Aufklärung
;
Ideengeschichte
Abstract:
"How can we rethink the terms of Enlightenment anthropology in a manner and an idiom appropriate to the contemporary era? The essays collated here argue for anthropology's use in acknowledging, exploring and interpreting divergence and ideological conflict over human meaning. The volume is structured around some of the key themes that the Enlightenment fostered, including human nature, time, Earth and the cosmos, beauty, order, harmony and design, morals, and the query of whether wealthy nations make for healthy publics. It focuses in particular on how 'moral sentiment' offered a guiding idea in Enlightenment thought. The idea of 'moral sentiment' is central to the essays' grappling with the ethical anxieties of contemporary anthropology. The essays therefore trace historical connections and fissures, and focus in particular on Adam Smith's attempts toward an understanding of what would later be called 'modernity' - where the realism that allows us to understand individual experience appears at odds with the realism which takes on larger scale social processes of enculturation or globalization. With an afterword from Marilyn Strathern, this volume makes a strong addition to the ASA conference proceedings"--Bloomsbury Publishing
Abstract:
Notes on Contributors -- Preface: The 'Star' Consortium and the ASA Decennial Conference -- Introduction: Moral Social Relations as Methodology and as Everyday Practice -- 1 After Sympathy, a Question -- 2 His Father Came to Him in His Sleep: An Essay on Enlightenment, Mortalities and Immortalities in Iceland -- 3 On 'Bad Mind': Orienting Sentiment in Jamaican Street Life -- 4 Westermarck, Moral Relativity and Ethical Behaviour -- 5 Saving Sympathy: Adam Smith, Morality, Law and Commerce -- 6 'Can We Have Our Nature/Culture Dichotomy Back, Please'? -- 7 Who Are We to Judge? Two Metalogues on Morality Ronald Stade -- 8 'We Are All Human': Cosmopolitanism as a Radically Political, Moral Project -- 9 Transference and Cosmopolitan Politesse: Coming to Terms with the Distorted, 'Tragic' Quality of Social Relations between Individual Human Beings -- 10 Afterword: Becoming Enlightened about Relations -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.5040/9781350086630
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