Existential Anthropology: Events, Exigencies, and EffectsInspired by existential thought, but using ethnographic methods, Jackson explores a variety of compelling topics, including 9/11, episodes from the war in Sierra Leone and its aftermath, the marginalization of indigenous Australians, the application of new technologies, mundane forms of ritualization, the magical use of language, the sociality of violence, the prose of suffering, and the discourse of human rights. Throughout this compelling work, Jackson demonstrates that existentialism, far from being a philosophy of individual being, enables us to explore issues of social existence and coexistence in new ways, and to theorise events as the sites of a dynamic interplay between the finite possibilities of the situations in which human beings find themselves and the capacities they yet possess for creating viable forms of social life. |
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... simply live and reproduce in passivity, but actually produce and transform through praxis, creating a sense that life is worth living – a condition of wellbeing that Bourdieu captures in the term conatus. If one's habitus is destroyed ...
... simply acknowledge that while human existence is seldom a matter solely of ourselves, but of our relations with others, it is grasped only within ourselves.17 In seeking to elucidate the rationales and reasons for being that are ...
... simply a dirty word that rationalists use to extol their own model of understanding and the interests it serves. That theoretical reason should be so fascinated by the arrangements of the State, and of wealth, is not only because it ...
... simply recognise 'the large outline which a general theory imposes upon events' (Oakeshott 1991:6). Notes. 1. As Sartre notes, 'the being of human reality is originally not a substance but a lived relation (1956: 575). The capacity to be ...
... simply by freeing us from our thralldom to the past, but by connecting us with others as co-creators of a viable social world (Arendt 1958:178). My work on the politics of storytelling (Jackson 2002a) was crafted as a set of variations ...
Contents
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Chapter 3 VIOLENCE AND INTERSUBJECTIVE REASON | 35 |
AN ESSAY ON ANARCHY | 53 |
Chapter 5 WHATS IN A NAME? AN ESSAY ON THE POWER OF WORDS | 75 |
Chapter 6 MUNDANE RITUAL | 93 |
Chapter 7 BIOTECHNOLOGY AND THE CRITIQUE OF GLOBALISATION | 111 |
Chapter 8 FAMILIAR AND FOREIGN BODIES | 127 |
Chapter 9 THE PROSE OF SUFFERING | 143 |
Chapter 10 WHOSE HUMAN RIGHTS? | 159 |
Chapter 11 EXISTENTIAL IMPERATIVES | 181 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 195 |
INDEX | 211 |
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