Research Catalog

Title

Comparative metaphysics : ontology after anthropology / edited by Pierre Charbonnier, Gildas Salmon, and Peter Skafish.

Publication

London ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd., [2017]

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Additional Authors

• Charbonnier, Pierre (Researcher in philosophy)
• Salmon, Gildas
• Skafish, Peter

Description

vi, 357 pages; 23 cm

Summary

How does the ontological turn in anthropology redefine what modern, Western ontology is in practice, and offer the beginnings of a new ontological pluralism? On a planet that is increasingly becoming a single, metaphysically homogeneous world, anthropology remains one of the few disciplines that recognizes that being has been thought with very different concepts and can still be rendered in terms quite different than those placed on it today. Yet despite its critical acuity, even the most philosophically oriented anthropology often remains segregated from philosophical discussions aimed at rethinking such terms. What would come of an anthropology more fully committed to being a source of (post-) philosophical concepts? What would happen to philosophy if it began to think with and through these concepts? How, finally, does comparison condition these two projects ? This book addresses these questions from a variety of perspectives, all of which nonetheless hold in common the view that "philosophy" has been displaced and altered by the modes of thought of other collectives. An international group of authors, including Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Marilyn Strathern, Philippe Descola, and Bruno Latour, explore how the new anthropology/philosophy conjuncture opens new horizons of critique.

Series Statement

Reinventing critical theory

Uniform Title

Reinventing critical theory.

Subject

• Ontology
• Metaphysics
• Knowledge, Theory of
• Anthropology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Comparison, symmetry, pluralism -- Conceptual alteration: theory and method -- Life and agency outside nature -- Cosmopolitics and alterity.

Call Number

JFE 17-2869

ISBN

• 9781783488575
• 1783488573
• 9781783488582
• 1783488581

LCCN

2016033687

OCLC

929123082

Title

Comparative metaphysics : ontology after anthropology / edited by Pierre Charbonnier, Gildas Salmon, and Peter Skafish.

Publisher

London ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd., [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Reinventing critical theory

Reinventing critical theory.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Charbonnier, Pierre (Researcher in philosophy), editor.

Salmon, Gildas, editor.

Skafish, Peter, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-2869