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Title

Philosophy and anthropology : border crossing and transformations / edited by Ananta Kumar Giri and John Clammer.

Publication

New York City : Anthem Press, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Giri, Ananta Kumar.
• Clammer, J. R.

Description

xi, 364 pages; 23 cm

Series Statement

Key issues in modern sociology

Subject

• Philosophical anthropology
• Anthropology > Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction philosophy and anthropology in dialogues and conversations / John Clammer and Ananta Kumar Giri -- Nurturing the field: towards mutual fecundation and transformation of philosophy and anthropology -- The project of philosophical anthropology / John Clammer -- The self-preservation of man: remarks on the relation between modernity and philosophical anthropology / Kasper Lysemose -- Whither modernity? hybridization, postoccidentalism, postdevelopment and transmodernity / Ivan Marquez -- Philosophical anthropology and philosophy in anthropology / Vaclav Brezina -- The engagement of philosophy and anthropology in the interpretive turn and beyond: towards an anthropology of the contemporary / Heike Kämpf -- Mediation through cognitive dynamics: philosophical anthropology and the conflicts of our time / Piet Strydom -- Philosophy as anthropocentrism: language, life and aporia / Prasenjit Biswas -- Sources of philosophical anthropology --^
• Kant and anthropology / Ananta Kumar Giri -- Dilthey's theory of knowledge and its potential for anthropological theory / Daniel Šuber -- Malinowski and philosophy / Peter Skalník -- Ground, self, sign: the semiotic theories of charles sanders peirce and their applications in social anthropology / Lars Kjaerholm -- Ricoeur's challenge for a twenty-first century anthropology / Betsy Taylor -- Clifford geertz: the philosophical transformation of anthropology / Gernot Saalmann -- Bakhtin's heritage in anthropology: alterity and dialogue / Marcin Brocki -- The philosophy of slavoj ¿i¿ek and anthropology: the current situation and possible futures / Lars Kjaerholm -- Border crossings between anthropology and buddhist philosophy / Susantha Goonatilake -- Philosophical anthropology at work -- Anthropology of philosophy in africa: the ethnography of critical discourse and intellectual practice / Kai Kresse -- Albinos do not die: belief, philosophy and anthropology / João de Pina-Cabral --^
• Anthropology, development and the myth of culture / Robert Feleppa -- Notions of friendship in philosophical and anthropological thought -- Heidrun friese -- Afterword the return of philosophical anthropology / Fred Dallmayr.

ISBN

• 9780857285126 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0857285122 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2013043347

OCLC

862041452

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library