Philosophy and Anthropology

Border Crossing and Transformations
Herausgeber: Clammer, John; Giri, Ananta Kumar

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Produktbeschreibung

'Philosophy and Anthropology: Border Crossings and Transformations' is an innovative and original collection of essays exploring the relationships between philosophy and anthropology - historically and presently ? and the theoretical and practical issues concerning their dialogue.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 619g
• ISBN-13: 9781783083558
• ISBN-10: 1783083557
• Artikelnr.: 41372770

Autorenporträt

Edited by Ananta Kumar Giri and John Clammer

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Philosophy and Anthropology in
Dialogues and Conversations – John Clammer and Ananta Kumar Giri; PART I:
NURTURING THE FIELD: TOWARDS MUTUAL FECUNDATION AND TRANSFORMATION OF
PHILOSOPHY AND ANTHROPOLOGY; Chapter 1 The Project of Philosophical
Anthropology – John Clammer; Chapter 2: The Self-Preservation of Man:
Remarks on the Relation between Modernity and Philosophical Anthropology –
Kasper Lysemose; Chapter 3: Whither Modernity? Hybridization,
Postoccidentalism, Postdevelopment and Transmodernity – Ivan Marquez;
Chapter 4: Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy in Anthropology –
Vaclav Brezina; Chapter 5: The Engagement of Philosophy and Anthropology in
the Interpretive Turn and Beyond: Towards an Anthropology of the
Contemporary – Heike Kampf; Chapter 6: Mediation through Cognitive
Dynamics: Philosophical Anthropology and the Conflicts of Our Time – Piet
Strydom; Chapter 7: Philosophy as Anthropocentrism: Language, Life and
‘Aporia’ – Prasenjit Biswas; PART II: SOURCES OF PHILOSOPHICAL
ANTHROPOLOGY; Chapter 8: Kant and Anthropology – Ananta Kumar Giri; Chapter
9: Dilthey’s Theory of Knowledge and Its Potential for Anthropological
Theory – Daniel Šuber; Chapter 10: Malinowski and Philosophy – Peter
Skalnik; Chapter 11: Ground, Self, Sign: The Semiotic Theories of Charles
Sanders Peirce and Their Applications in Social Anthropology – Lars
Kjaerholm; Chapter 12: Ricoeur’s Challenge for a Twenty-First Century
Anthropology – Betsy Taylor; Chapter 13: Clifford Geertz: The Philosophical
Transformation of Anthropology – Gernot Saalmann; Chapter 14: Bakhtin’s
Heritage in Anthropology: Alterity and Dialogue – Marcin Brocki; Chapter
15: The Philosophy of Slavoj Žižek and Anthropology: The Current Situation
and Possible Futures – Lars Kjaerholm; Chapter 16: Border Crossings between
Anthropology and Buddhist Philosophy – Susantha Goonatilake; PART III:
PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AT WORK; Chapter 17: ‘Anthropology of
Philosophy’ in Africa: The Ethnography of Critical Discourse and
Intellectual Practice – Kai Kresse; Chapter 18: Albinos Do Not Die: Belief,
Philosophy and Anthropology – Joao de Pina-Cabral; Chapter 19:
Anthropology, Development and the Myth of Culture – Robert Feleppa; Chapter
20: Notions of Friendship in Philosophical and Anthropological Thought –
Heidrun Friese; Afterword The Return of Philosophical Anthropology – Fred
Dallmayr