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010 _a 2006100541
020 _a1845452240
_qhardcover : alk. paper
020 _a9781845452247
_qhardcover : alk. paper
035 _a14656139
035 _a(OCoLC)77011488
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050 0 0 _aBJ1031
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100 1 _aEvens, T. M. S.
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245 1 0 _aAnthropology as ethics :
_bnondualism and the conduct of sacrifice /
_cT.M.S. Evens.
260 _aNew York :
_bBerghahn Books,
_c2008.
300 _axxiv, 392 p. ;
_c24 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 364-375) and index.
505 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.
650 0 _aEthics.
650 0 _aDualism.
650 0 _aSacrifice.
650 0 _aAnthropology
_xPhilosophy.
856 4 1 _3Table of contents only
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip076/2006100541.html
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