{"product_id":"anthropology-as-ethics-nondualism-and-the-conduct-of-sacrifice-9781845452247","title":"Anthropology as Ethics: Nondualism and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eAnthropology as Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e is concerned with rethinking anthropology by rethinking the nature of reality. It develops the ontological implications of a defining thesis of the Manchester School: that all social orders exhibit basically conflicting underlying principles. Drawing especially on Continental social thought, including Wittgenstein, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Dumont, Bourdieu and others, and on pre-modern sources such as the Hebrew bible, the Nuer, the Dinka, and the Azande, the book mounts a radical study of the ontology of self and other in relation to dualism and nondualism. It demonstrates how the self-other dichotomy disguises fundamental ambiguity or nondualism, thus obscuring the essentially ethical, dilemmatic, and sacrificial nature of all social life. It also proposes a reason other than dualist, nihilist, and instrumental, one in which logic is seen as both inimical to and continuous with value. Without embracing absolutism, the book makes ambiguity and paradox the foundation of an ethical response to the pervasive anti-foundationalism of much postmodern thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e \tOrganization and Key Usages\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/b\u003e Nondualism, Ontology, and Anthropology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART I: THE ETHNOGRAPHIC SELF: THE SOCIO-POLITICAL PATHOLOGY OF MODERNITY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Anthropology and the Synthetic a Priori: Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Blind Faith and the Binding of Isaac—the Akedah\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Excursus I: Sacrifice as Human Existence\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Counter-Sacrifice and Instrumental Reason—the Holocaust\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Bourdieu’s Anti-dualism and “Generalized Materialism”\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Habermas’s Anti-dualism and “Communicative Rationality”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART II: THE ETHNOGRAPHIC OTHER: THE ETHICAL OPENNESS OF ARCHAIC UNDERSTANDING\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e Technological Efficacy, Mythic Rationality, and Non-contradiction\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e Epistemic Efficacy, Mythic Rationality, and Non-contradiction\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Contradiction and Choice among the Dinka and in Genesis\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e Contradiction in Azande Oracular Practice and in Psychotherapeutic Interaction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART III: FROM MYTHIC TO VALUE-RATIONALITY: TOWARD ETHICAL GAIN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e Epistemic and Ethical Gain\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/b\u003e Transcending Dualism and Amplifying Choice\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/b\u003e Excursus II: What Good, Ethics?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/b\u003e Anthropology and the Generative Primacy of Moral Order\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eConclusion:\u003c\/b\u003e Emancipatory Selfhood and Value-Rationality\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tNotes References\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042969157975,"sku":"9781845452247","price":96.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/anthropology-as-ethics-nondualism-and-the-conduct-of-sacrifice-9781845452247","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}