Opis: The Ethical Condition - Michael Lambek

Written over a thirty-year span, Michael Lambek's essays in this collection point with definitive force toward a single central truth: ethics is intrinsic to social life. As he shows through rich ethnographic accounts and multiple theoretical traditions, our human condition is at heart an ethical one-we may not always be good or just, but we are always subject to their criteria. Detailing Lambek's trajectory as one anthropologist thinking deeply throughout a career on the nature of ethical life, the essays accumulate into a vibrant demonstration of the relevance of ethics as a practice and its crucial importance to ethnography, social theory, and philosophy. Organized chronologically, the essays begin among Malagasy speakers on the island of Mayotte and in northwest Madagascar. Building from ethnographic accounts there, they synthesize Aristotelian notions of practical judgment and virtuous action with Wittgensteinian notions of the ordinariness of ethical life and the importance of language, everyday speech, and ritual in order to understand how ethics are lived. They illustrate the multiple ways in which ethics informs personhood, character, and practice; explore the centrality of judgment, action, and irony to ethical life; and consider the relation of virtue to value. The result is a fully fleshed-out picture of ethics as a deeply rooted aspect of the human experience. Lambek has come to be identified with a distinctive position within the anthropology of ethics one that recognizes the ethical as an imminent dimension of all human social life, that sees the human condition as necessarily and pervasively an ethical one. The argument for this position is richlydeveloped across the essays in this collection and rooted in Lambek s exemplary, detailed ethnography and fine readings of a distinctive range of thinkers. The result is beautifully written, scrupulous scholarship of the highest order that will be indispensible for this important and growing field of anthropology. --James Laidlaw, University of Cambridge"

Szczegóły: The Ethical Condition - Michael Lambek

Tytuł: The Ethical Condition
Autor: Michael Lambek
Producent: Chicago University Press
ISBN: 9780226292243
Rok produkcji: 2015
Ilość stron: 400
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.54 kg

Recenzje: The Ethical Condition - Michael Lambek