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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... speaking that were developed in one's first and familiar lifeworld are suddenly invalidated, and this may lead to such a loss of confidence, satisfaction and enjoyment that one may feel that life itself no longer has any meaning, and is ...
... speak of the sense of an event, I mean the irreducibility of its meaning. When I speak of the significance of an event, I mean its social and ethical ramifications. Sartre's distinction between sens and signification (1964) is pertinent ...
... speak and think, nor make special claims for any one (since all these modalities of thought and action may have useful consequences, just as scientific rationality may sometimes have harmful ones); rather, my interest is in showing how ...
... speak and to act must not be conflated with the bourgeois notion of agency as individual will, idealised as a form of long-term, strategic action that surmounts obstacles, transcends circumstances, and often realises its dreams ...
... speak, think, and act – the shape of things to come, which is why ethics is perhaps more urgently a matter of how we react to circumstances than the circumstances themselves. Sartre defines human freedom as our capacity to make ...
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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 |