As wide as the world is wise : new directions in philosophical anthropology /

As wide as the world is wise : new directions in philosophical anthropology /

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Author / Creator:	Jackson, Michael, 1940- author.
Imprint:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2016] ©2016
Description:	1 online resource (x, 259 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Philosophical anthropology. Anthropology -- Philosophy. Anthropology -- Philosophy. Philosophical anthropology. Electronic books. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11306749

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ISBN:	9780231541985 0231541988 9780231178280 023117828X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Philosophy and anthropology have long debated questions of difference: rationality versus irrationality, abstraction versus concreteness, modern versus premodern. What if these disciplines instead focused on the commonalities of human experience? Would this effort bring philosophers and anthropologists closer together? Would it lead to greater insights across historical and cultural divides? In As Wide as the World Is Wise, Michael Jackson encourages philosophers and anthropologists to mine the space between localized and globalized perspectives, to resolve empirically the distinctions between the one and the many and between specific forms of life and life itself. His project balances remote, epistemological practice with immanent reflection, promoting a more situated, embodied, and sensuous approach to the world and its in-between spaces. Drawing on a lifetime of ethnographic fieldwork in West Africa and Aboriginal Australia, Jackson resets the language and logic of academic thought from the standpoint of other lifeworlds. He extends Kant's cosmopolitan ideal to include all human societies, achieving a radical break with elite ideas of the subjective and a more expansive conception of truth.
Other form:	Print version: Jackson, Michael, 1940- As wide as the world is wise. New York : Columbia University Press, [2016] 9780231178280

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. Analogy and polarity
2. Identity and difference
3. Relations and relata
4. Matters of life and death
5. Ourselves and others
6. Belief and experience
7. Persons and types
8. Being and thought
9. Fate and freewill
10. Center and periphery
11. Ecologies of mind.