Anthropology as ethics : nondualism and the conduct of sacrifice / / T.M.S. Evens.

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Year of Publication:2008
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Physical Description:xxiv, 392 p.
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245 1 0 |a Anthropology as ethics  |h [electronic resource] :  |b nondualism and the conduct of sacrifice /  |c T.M.S. Evens. 
260 |a New York :  |b Berghahn Books,  |c 2008. 
300 |a xxiv, 392 p. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-375) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
533 |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
650 0 |a Ethics. 
650 0 |a Dualism. 
650 0 |a Sacrifice. 
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