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Book Synopsis The world we live in is constantly changing. Climate change, transforming gender conceptions, emerging issues of food consumption, novel forms of family life and technological developments are altering central areas of our forms of life. This raises questions of how to cope with and understand the moral changes implicit in such alterations. This volume is the first to address moral change as such. It brings together anthropologists and philosophers to discuss how to study and theorize the change of norms, concepts, emotions, moral frameworks and forms of personhood.
Trade Review “An original and far-reaching work that will excite both students and senior scholars, attracting a wide readership within and beyond anthropology and moral philosophy and prompting lively debate across multiple fields and specialisms.” • Susan Bayly, University of Cambridge
“This volume is a valuable collection of texts around the undertheorized and crucial notion of moral change, which brings together anthropologists of ethics and moral philosophers. Such a book is needed and it would naturally find its place in the growing literature in the field of morality.” • Monica Heintz, Université Paris Nanterre
Table of Contents Introduction: Moral Change in Philosophy and Anthropology
Cecilie Eriksen and Nora Hämäläinen
This chapter is available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license thanks to the support of the ERC via Utrecht University.
Chapter 1. Moral Change Through the Lens of Marriage
Susan MacDougall
Chapter 2. Queering ‘Ayb in the Urban Landscapes of Amman
Marie Rask Bjerre Odgaard
Chapter 3. Ordinary Possibility, Transcendent Immanence, and Responsive Ethics: A Philosophical Anthropology of the Small Event
Cheryl Mattingly
Chapter 4. Moral Revolutions, Value Change, and the Question of Moral Progress
Joel Robbins
Chapter 5. Losing Selves: Moral Injury and the Changing Moral Economies of State-Sanctioned Violence
Elizabeth M. Bounds and Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon
Chapter 6. Dementia Care Ethics, Social Ontology, and World-Open Care: Phenomenological Motifs
Rasmus Dyring
Chapter 7. On Moral Revolutions
Robert Baker
Chapter 8. Moral Borderlands: Ethical Normativity in Liminal Spaces
Cecilie Eriksen
This chapter is available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license thanks to the support of the ERC via Utrecht University.
Chapter 9. Moral Change and Moral Truth
Nora Hämäläinen
Chapter 10. The Problem of Piety
Cora Diamond
Chapter 11. Guiding Ethical Sentences, Moral Change, and Form(s) of Life
Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen
Chapter 12. Two Historical Periods Within One Human Breast
Niklas Forsberg
Conclusion: Morality in Action
Nora Hämäläinen
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