ISBN:
978-1-108-42496-7
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 198 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
first published
Keywords:
Freiheit Kreativität
;
Entscheidungsfindung
;
Postmoderne
;
Humanismus
;
Philosophie
;
Anthropologie, philosophische
;
Individuum und Gesellschaft
;
Krise
;
Wert, ideeller
Abstract:
"This volume responds to the often proclaimed 'death of the subject' and common debate across the social sciences for post-humanist approaches in a distinctively anthropological manner. It asks: can we use the intellectual resources developed in those debates to reconstruct a new account of how individual human subjects are contingently put together in diverse historical and ethnographic contexts? Anthropologists know that the people they work with think in terms of particular, distinctive, individual human personalities, and that in times of change and crisis these individuals matter crucially to how things turn out. The volume features a classic essay by Caroline Humphrey, 'Reassembling Individual Subjects' that provides a focus for the debate to bring together a range of theoretical approaches and rich and varied ethnography."
Description / Table of Contents:
Barbara Bodenhorn, Martin Holbraad, and James Laidlaw: Introduction: Freedom, creativity, and decision in recovering the human subject -- Caroline Humphrey: Reassembling individual subjects: events and decisions in troubled times -- Part I. Decision -- Veena Das: On singularity and the event: further reflections on the ordinary -- Lars Hojer: Apathy and revolution: temporal sensibilities in contemporary Mongolia -- Agnieszka Halemba: Apparitions of the virgin mary as decision-events -- Part II. Freedom -- Morten Axel Pedersen Incidental Connections: Freedom and urban life in Mongolia -- Katherine Swancutt & Jiarimuji : the return to slavery' nostalgia and a new generation of escape in Southwest China -- Creativity -- Matei Candea: Paradoxical pedagogies and humanist double binds -- Joel Robbins: Where in the world are values? Exemplarity, morality, and social process.
