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The ethical condition : essays on action, person, and value
- Title
- The ethical condition : essays on action, person, and value / Michael Lambek.
- Author
- Lambek, Michael
- Publication
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2015]
- ©2015
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Details
- Description
- xxv, 361 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This volume contains a selection of my essays that attend ethnographically to ethical life, to the action entailed in becoming and being a person, and to the relationship of acts and persons to value. The essays address central questions of social theory from an assumption and by means of a demonstration of the pervasiveness of what I elaborate as ethical. The ethical in my vocabulary is not an object, not a distinct compartment of the social, so much as a force, dimension, or quality of human existence. To attend to the ethical is to look at social life in a certain way and to put it under a certain kind of description. Ignoring the ethical leaves ethnographicl description thin and risks caricature in place of social analysis"--Preface.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-350) and index.
- Contents
- The ethical condition -- Virgin marriage and the autonomy of women in Mayotte -- Taboo as cultural practice among Malagasy speakers -- The past imperfect : remembering as moral practice -- The anthropology of religion and the quarrel between poetry and philosophy -- Just anger : scenarios of indignation in Botswana and Madagascar / coauthored by Jacqueline Solway -- Rheumatic irony : questions of agency and self-deception as refracted through the art of living with spirits -- On catching up with oneself : learning to know that one means what one does -- Sacrifice and the problem of beginning : reflections from Sakalava mythopraxis -- Value and virtue -- Toward an ethics of the act -- Ethics out of the ordinary -- The value of (performative) acts -- The continuous and discontinuous person : two dimensions of ethical life.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-8132
- ISBN
- 9780226292106
- 022629210X
- 9780226292243
- 022629224X
- 9780226292380 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015006388
- OCLC
- 902656834
- Author
- Lambek, Michael, author.
- Title
- The ethical condition : essays on action, person, and value / Michael Lambek.
- Publisher
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2015]
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-350) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-8132