‘I am Here’, Abraham Said: Emmanuel Levinas and Anthropological Science (Methodology & History in Anthropology #47)
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- Synopsis
- Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophical work on ‘the Other’ offers a challenge to the discipline of anthropology that claims knowledge of the human. For Levinas, the ‘secrecy’ of subjectivity – a fundamental facet of the human condition – demands an ethics of ignorance and not-knowing; the mystery of otherness is only to be approached through ‘inspiration’. Can anthropology meet a Levinasian challenge if it would define itself as a science as well as a humanistic documentation of social life? This book endeavours to take Levinasian and anthropological precepts equally seriously and offers a radical conclusion.
- Copyright:
- 2024
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781805394716
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781805394709
- Publisher:
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated
- Date of Addition:
- 04/01/24
- Copyrighted By:
- Nigel Rapport
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Social Studies, Philosophy
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.