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Emmanuel Levinas's philosophical work on the Other' offers a challenge to the discipline of anthropology that claims knowledge of the human. For Levinas, the secrecy' of subjectivity a fundamental facet of the human condition demands an ethics of ignorance and not-knowing; the mystery of otherness is only to be approached through inspiration'. Can anthropology meet a Levinasian challenge if it would define itself as a science as well as a humanistic documentation of social life? This book endeavours to take Levinasian and anthropological precepts equally seriously and offers a radical conclusion.

I am Here Abraham Said

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      Publisher: Berghahn Books
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/1/2024
      ISBN13: 9781805394709, 978-1805394709
      ISBN10: 1805394703

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      Book Synopsis

      Emmanuel Levinas's philosophical work on the Other' offers a challenge to the discipline of anthropology that claims knowledge of the human. For Levinas, the secrecy' of subjectivity a fundamental facet of the human condition demands an ethics of ignorance and not-knowing; the mystery of otherness is only to be approached through inspiration'. Can anthropology meet a Levinasian challenge if it would define itself as a science as well as a humanistic documentation of social life? This book endeavours to take Levinasian and anthropological precepts equally seriously and offers a radical conclusion.

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