Existential Anthropology: Events, Exigencies, and EffectsBerghahn Books, 01/06/2005 - 252 من الصفحات Inspired 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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... Hannah Arendt called 'the subjective in-between' (1958: 183) and on that which comes into being in this intermediate space of human interest and interaction. Bypassing both the individual subject and culture as sui generis phenomena, we ...
... Hannah Arendt calls 'natality' – the tendency of all human action not only to conserve the past but to initiate new possibilities (1958: 176–178). Bourdieu's emphasis on habitus as a 'quasi-perfect coincidence between objective ...
... Hannah Arendt called suffering, since the reciprocal condition of being a 'who', an actor, is to be a 'what', a being who is acted upon (1958: 190). Similarly, stoic notions of abnegation and acceptance, or zen and yogic notions of ...
... Hannah Arendt (1958: 190) The course of history, like the course of any human life, comprises a succession of turbulent events interrupted by periods of comparative calm. It is in these lulls that we take stock of our situation, come to ...
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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 |