Anthropology as ethics : nondualism and the conduct of sacrifice / / T.M.S. Evens.
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xxiv, 392 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.