02365cam a2200397 a 4500 14656139 OSt 20250702151825.0 061205s2008 nyu b 001 0 eng 2006100541 1845452240 hardcover : alk. paper 9781845452247 hardcover : alk. paper 14656139 (OCoLC)77011488 DLC DLC BAKER BTCTA YDXCP C#P BWX DLC BJ1031 .E94 2008 301.01 EVE/A Evens, T. M. S. 10597 Anthropology as ethics : nondualism and the conduct of sacrifice / T.M.S. Evens. New York : Berghahn Books, 2008. xxiv, 392 p. ; 24 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-375) and index. Nondualism, ontology, and anthropology -- Anthropology and the synthetic a priori: Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty -- Blind faith and the binding of Isaac: the Akedah -- Excursus I: sacrifice as human existence -- Counter-sacrifice and instrumental reason: the Holocaust -- Bourdieu's anti-dualism and "generalized materialism" -- Habermas's anti-dualism and "communicative rationality" -- Technological efficacy, mythic rationality, and non-contradiction -- Epistemic efficacy, mythic rationality, and non-contradiction -- Contradiction and choice among the Dinka and in Genesis -- Contradiction in Azande oracular practice and in psychotherapeutic interaction -- Epistemic and ethical gain -- Transcending dualism and amplifying choice -- Excursus II: what good, ethics? -- Anthropology and the generative primacy of moral order -- Conclusion: Emancipatory selfhood and value-rationality. Ethics. Dualism. Sacrifice. Anthropology Philosophy. Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip076/2006100541.html 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 301.01 EVE/A 301.01 EVE/A 0 0 ddc 0 0 SOCIAL SCIENCE MES MES SOCIAL SCIENCE 2025-07-02 0 301.01 EVE/A 46058 2025-07-02 15:18:12 3721.20 2025-07-02 BK GL50R1 44596 44596