02304cam a2200385 a 450000100090000000300040000900500170001300800410003001000170007102000390008802000420012703500130016903500200018204000490020205000220025108200180027310000270029124500870031826000390040530000270044433600260047133700280049733800270052550400640055250508940061665000120151065000130152265000150153565000300155085600820158090600450166294200420170795201520174999900170190114656139OSt20250702151825.0061205s2008    nyu      b    001 0 eng    a  2006100541  a1845452240qhardcover : alk. paper  a9781845452247qhardcover : alk. paper  a14656139  a(OCoLC)77011488  aDLCcDLCdBAKERdBTCTAdYDXCPdC#PdBWXdDLC00aBJ1031b.E94 200800a301.01bEVE/A1 aEvens, T. M. S.91059710aAnthropology as ethics :bnondualism and the conduct of sacrifice /cT.M.S. Evens.  aNew York :bBerghahn Books,c2008.  axxiv, 392 p. ;c24 cm.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 364-375) and index.0 aNondualism, 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. 0aEthics. 0aDualism. 0aSacrifice. 0aAnthropologyxPhilosophy.413Table of contents onlyuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip076/2006100541.html  a7bcbccorignewd1eecipf20gy-gencatlg  2ddccBKh301.01iEVE/Ak301.01mEVE/A  00102ddc40708SOCIAL SCIENCEaMESbMEScSOCIAL SCIENCEd2025-07-02l0o301.01 EVE/Ap46058r2025-07-02 15:18:12v3721.20w2025-07-02yBKzGL50R1  c44596d44596