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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... Truth and Religion. Franz B. Steiner Edited by Jeremy Adler and Richard Fardon Volume 3 Franz Baerman Steiner. Selected Writings Volume II: Orientalism, Value, and Civilisation. Franz B. Steiner Edited by Jeremy Adler and Richard Fardon ...
... truth I am concerned with here, but Noah's truth, according to which S.B., rather than being the mentor he sought, had consistently disparaged him. Not only does Noah suffer rejection, but all kinds of misfortune follow from his being ...
... truth of 'pure experience'. Our task is not to essentialise these terms, labelling them true or false, good or bad, right or wrong, authentic or inauthentic, but to explore the tension and interplay between the modalities of experience ...
... truth or falsity of ways of representing events in order to explore the social and ethical entailments of those representations. This methodological relativism is central to my critique of globalisation theory in chapter 7, and my ...
... truth, are equally significant in the struggle for life. One thus abjures the way in which statist discourse – whether outside or within the academy – writes off as irrational, nescient, impoverished or ephemeral those forms of life ...
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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The Body of the Queen: Gender and Rule in the Courtly World from the 15th to ... Regina Schulte No preview available - 2005 |