New Perspectives on Moral Change: Anthropologists and Philosophers Engage with Transformations of Life Worlds

Published by Berghahn Books 2022

New Perspectives on Moral Change

Anthropologists and Philosophers Engage with Transformations of Life Worlds

Edited by: Cecilie Eriksen and Nora Hämäläinen

Volume 13 in the series WYSE Series in Social Anthropology

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800735989

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About this book

The world we live in is constantly changing. Climate change, transforming gender conceptions, emerging issues of food consumption, novel forms of family life and technological developments are altering central areas of our forms of life. This raises questions of how to cope with and understand the moral changes implicit in such alterations. This volume is the first to address moral change as such. It brings together anthropologists and philosophers to discuss how to study and theorize the change of norms, concepts, emotions, moral frameworks and forms of personhood.

Author / Editor information

Cecilie Eriksen is special consultant at National Center of Ethics, The Ministry of Health, Denmark. She is the author of Moral Change – Dynamics, Structure and Normativity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). She has further published on Wittgenstein and Løgstrup as well as co-edited and contributed to volumes on topics such as law and legitimacy, modern work life, and contextual ethics.

Nora Hämäläinen is senior researcher at the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic and the author of Literature and Moral Theory (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Descriptive Ethics: What does Moral Philosophy Know about Morality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

Cecilie Eriksen is special consultant at National Center of Ethics, The Ministry of Health, Denmark. She is the author of Moral Change – Dynamics, Structure and Normativity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). She has further published on Wittgenstein and Løgstrup as well as co-edited and contributed to volumes on topics such as law and legitimacy, modern work life, and contextual ethics.

Reviews

“An original and far-reaching work that will excite both students and senior scholars, attracting a wide readership within and beyond anthropology and moral philosophy and prompting lively debate across multiple fields and specialisms.” • Susan Bayly, University of Cambridge

“This volume is a valuable collection of texts around the undertheorized and crucial notion of moral change, which brings together anthropologists of ethics and moral philosophers. Such a book is needed and it would naturally find its place in the growing literature in the field of morality.” • Monica Heintz, Université Paris Nanterre

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Introduction. Moral Change in Philosophy and Anthropology Cecilie Eriksen and Nora Hämäläinen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Moral Change through the Lens of Marriage Susan MacDougall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Chapter 2. Queering ‘Ayb in the Urban Landscapes of Amman Marie Rask Bjerre Odgaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
Chapter 3. Ordinary Possibility, Transcendent Immanence and Responsive Ethics: A Philosophical Anthropology of the Small Event Cheryl Mattingly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
Chapter 4. Moral Revolutions, Value Change and the Question of Moral Progress Joel Robbins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Chapter 5. Losing Selves: Moral Injury and the Changing Moral Economies of State-Sanctioned Violence Elizabeth M. Bounds and Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
Chapter 6. Dementia Care Ethics, Social Ontology and World-Open Care: Phenomenological Motifs Rasmus Dyring Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
Chapter 7. On Moral Revolutions Robert Baker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
Chapter 8. Moral Borderlands: Moral Change and Ethical Normativity in Liminal Spaces Cecilie Eriksen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Chapter 9. Moral Change and Moral Truth Nora Hämäläinen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Chapter 10. The Problem of Impiety Cora Diamond Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
Chapter 11. Guiding Ethical Sentences, Moral Change and Form(s) of Life Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
Chapter 12. Two Historical Periods within One Human Breast Niklas Forsberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
Conclusion. Morality in Action Nora Hämäläinen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 244
Keywords: Anthropology (General); Anthropology of Religion

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Published: August 12, 2022
ISBN: 9781800735989