James Laidlaw

The Subject of Virtue

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A clearly written, sophisticated summary of and prospectus for a flourishing current field of anthropological research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9781107697317
• ISBN-10: 110769731X
• Artikelnr.: 38611797

Autorenporträt

James Laidlaw is Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology and Fellow of King's College at the University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Beyond the science of unfreedom
2. Virtue ethics: philosophy with an ethnographic stance?
3. Foucault's genealogy and the undefined work of freedom
4. The 'question of freedom' in anthropology
5. Taking responsibility seriously
6. Endnote: the reluctant cannibal.