Anthropology and Philosophy : : Dialogues on Trust and Hope /

Anthropology and Philosophy : : Dialogues on Trust and Hope / / ed. by Sune Liisberg, Anne Line Dalsgård, Esther Oluffa Pedersen.

The present book is no ordinary anthology, but rather a workroom in which anthropologists and philosophers initiate a dialogue on trust and hope, two important topics for both fields of study. The book combines work between scholars from different universities in the U.S. and Denmark. Thus, besides...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Bubandt, Nils,
Dalsgård, Anne Line,
Jackson, Michael D.,
Jensen, Uffe Juul,
Klausen, Søren Harnow,
Liisberg, Sune,
Lucht, Hans,
Mattingly, Cheryl,
Meinert, Lotte,
Miyazaki, Hirokazu,
Pedersen, Esther Oluffa,
Raffnsøe, Sverre,
Rasmussen, Anders Moe,
Wentzer, Thomas Schwarz,
HerausgeberIn:
Dalsgård, Anne Line,
Liisberg, Sune,
Pedersen, Esther Oluffa,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Anthropology & . ; 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (302 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Anthropology
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Trust and Hope
  • Dialogue One. Practical Philosophy and Hope as a Moral Project among African-Americans
  • Joint Statement
  • What Can We Hope For? An Exploration in Cosmopolitan Philosophical Anthropology
  • References
  • Dialogue Two. Existential Anthropology and the Category of the New
  • Joint Statement
  • The Reopening of the Gate of Effort: Existential Imperatives at the Margins of a Globalized World
  • The Eternal Recurrence of the New
  • Joint Afterword
  • References
  • Dialogue Three. Intentional Trust in Uganda
  • Joint Statement
  • An Outline of Interpersonal Trust and Distrust
  • Tricky Trust: Distrust as a Point of Departure and Trust as a Social Achievement in Uganda
  • References
  • Dialogue Four. Trust, Ambiguity, and Indonesian Modernity
  • Joint Statement
  • Trust in an Age of Inauthenticity: Power and Indonesian Modernity
  • Trust as the Life Magic of Self-Deception: A Philosophical- Psychological Investigation into Tolerance of Ambiguity
  • References
  • Dialogue Five. Gift-Giving and Power between Trust and Hope
  • Joint Statement
  • Empowering Trust in the New: Trust and Power as Capacities
  • Hope in the Gift—Hope in Sleep
  • References
  • Dialogue Six. With Kierkegaard in Africa
  • Joint Statement
  • Self, Hope, and the Unconditional: Kierkegaard on Faith and Hope
  • Kierkegaard in West Africa: Hope and Sacrifi ce in a Ghanaian Fishing Village
  • References
  • Epilogue. Anthropology and Philosophy in Dialogue?
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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