Disappointment : : Toward a Critical Hermeneutics of Worldbuilding / / Jarrett Zigon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Zigon, Jarrett,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2017]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

Increasingly, anthropologists, political theorists and philosophers are calling for imaginative and creative analyses and theories that might help us think and bring about an otherwise. Disappointment responds to this call by showing how collaboration between an anthropologist and a political movement of marginalized peoples can disclose new possibilities for being and acting politically. Drawing from nearly a decade of research with the global anti-drug war movement, Jarrett Zigon puts ethnography in dialogue with both political theory and continental philosophy to rethink some of the most fundamental ontological, political and ethical concepts. The result is to show that ontological starting points have real political implications, and thus, how an alternative ontological starting point can lead to new possibilities for building worlds more ethically attuned to their inhabitants.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- contents -- Introduction -- chapter 1. The Effective History of Rights -- chapter 2. Progress; or, The Repetition of Differential Sameness -- chapter 3. Worlds and Situations -- chapter 4. An Ethics of Dwelling -- chapter 5. Worldbuilding and Attunement -- Epilogue: Critical Hermeneutics -- acknowledgments -- notes -- index