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Anthropology as ethics : nondualism and the conduct of sacrifice /
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2008.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only |
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.