Philosophy and anthropology : border crossing and transformations /

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Imprint:New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2013.
Description:xvi, 364 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Key issues in modern sociology
Key issues in modern sociology.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9855413
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Other authors / contributors:Giri, Ananta Kumar, editor of compilation.
Clammer, J. R., editor of compilation.
ISBN:9780857285126 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0857285122 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction Philosophy and Anthropology in Dialogues and Conversations
  • Part I. Nurturing the Field: Towards Mutual Fecundation and Transformation of Philosophy and Anthropology
  • Chapter 1. The Project of Philosophical Anthropology
  • Chapter 2. The Self-Preservation of Man: Remarks on the Relation between Modernity and Philosophical Anthropology
  • Chapter 3. Whither Modernity? Hybridization, Postoccidentalism, Postdevelopment and Transmodernity
  • Chapter 4. Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy in Anthropology
  • Chapter 5. The Engagement of Philosophy and Anthropology in the Interpretive Turn and Beyond: Towards an Anthropology of the Contemporary
  • Chapter 6. Mediation through Cognitive Dynamics: Philosophical Anthropology and the Conflicts of Our Time
  • Chapter 7. Philosophy as Anthropocentrism: Language, Life and Aporia
  • Part II. Sources of Philosophical Anthropology
  • Chapter 8. Kant and Anthropology
  • Chapter 9. Dilthey's Theory of Knowledge and Its Potential for Anthropological Theory
  • Chapter 10. Malinowski and Philosophy
  • Chapter 11. Ground, Self, Sign: The Semiotic Theories of Charles Sanders Peirce and Their Applications in Social Anthropology
  • Chapter 12. Ricoeur's Challenge for a Twenty-First Century Anthropology
  • Chapter 13. Clifford Geertz: The Philosophical Transformation of Anthropology
  • Chapter 14. Bakhtin's Heritage in Anthropology: Alterity and Dialogue
  • Chapter 15. The Philosophy of Slavoj Zizek and Anthropology: The Current Situation and Possible Futures
  • Chapter 16. Border Crossings between Anthropology and Buddhist Philosophy
  • Part III. Philosophical Anthropology at Work
  • Chapter 17. 'Anthropology of Philosophy' in Africa: The Ethnography of Critical Discourse and Intellectual Practice
  • Chapter 18. Albinos Do Not Die: Belief, Philosophy and Anthropology
  • Chapter 19. Anthropology, Development and the Myth of Culture
  • Chapter 20. Notions of Friendship in Philosophical and Anthropological Thought
  • Afterword: The Return of Philosophical Anthropology