ISBN:
9781107028463
,
9781107697317
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 258 Seiten
,
24 cm
Edition:
first published 2014
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in McKearney, Patrick The Genre of Judgment 2016
Series Statement:
New departures in anthropology
DDC:
306.4
Keywords:
Anthropological ethics
;
Anthropologie
;
Ethik
;
Freiheit
;
Anthropologie
;
Ethik
;
Freiheit
;
Philosophie
;
Philosophische Anthropologie
Abstract:
A clearly written, sophisticated summary of and prospectus for a flourishing current field of anthropological research.
Abstract:
"The anthropology of ethics has become an important and fast-growing field in recent years. This book argues that it represents not just a new subfield within anthropology but a conceptual renewal of the discipline as a whole, enabling it to take account of a major dimension of human conduct which social theory has so far failed adequately to address. An ideal introduction for students and researchers in anthropology and related human sciences. [bullet] Shows how ethical concepts such as virtue, character, freedom and responsibility may be incorporated into anthropological analysis [bullet] Surveys the history of anthropology's engagement with morality [bullet] Examines the relevance for anthropology of two major philosophical approaches to moral life"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Beyond the science of unfreedom; 2. Virtue ethics: philosophy with an ethnographic stance?; 3. Foucault's genealogy and the undefined work of freedom; 4. The 'question of freedom' in anthropology; 5. Taking responsibility seriously; 6. Endnote: the reluctant cannibal.
Note:
Literaturverz. S. 225 - 253
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