Moral Engines

Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life

Cheryl Mattingly, Rasmus Dyring, Maria Louw, Thomas Schwarz Wentzer (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

266 Seiten

2017
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
9781785336935 (ISBN)

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What fundamentally drives human beings to strive for moral perfection? Is it care of the self? Is it care for others? Is it inextricably wedded to politics? Moral Engines includes some of the foremost voices in the anthropology of morality, representing a unique interdisciplinary conversation between anthropologists and philosophers about the moral engines of ethical life.

In the past fifteen years, there has been a virtual explosion of anthropological literature arguing that morality should be considered central to human practice. Out of this explosion new and invigorating conversations have emerged between anthropologists and philosophers. Moral Engines: Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life includes essays from some of the foremost voices in the anthropology of morality, offering unique interdisciplinary conversations between anthropologists and philosophers about the moral engines of ethical life, addressing the question: What propels humans to act in light of ethical ideals?

Cheryl Mattingly is Professor of Anthropology at University of Southern California. She is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow and has received numerous awards from the American Anthropological Association, including the Victor Turner Prize, the Stirling Prize and the New Millennium Prize. Her most recent book is Moral Laboratories: Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life (University of California Press 2014).

Prologue

Cheryl Mattingly

Chapter 1. The Question of 'Moral Engines': Introducing a Philosophical Anthropological Dialogue

Rasmus Dyring, Cheryl Mattingly, and Maria Louw

PART I: MORAL ENGINES AND HUMAN EXPERIENCE

Chapter 2. Ethics, Immanent Transcendence and the Experimental Narrative Self

Cheryl Mattingly

Chapter 3. Being Otherwise: On Regret, Morality, and Mood

Jason Throop

Chapter 4. Haunting as Moral Engine: Ethical Striving and Moral Aporias among Sufis in Uzbekistan

Maria Louw

Chapter 5. Every Day: Forgiving after War in Northern Uganda

Lotte Meinert

Chapter 6. The Provocation of Freedom

Rasmus Dyring

PART II: MORAL ENGINES AND 'MORAL FACTS'

Chapter 7. On the Immanence of Ethics

Michael Lambek

Chapter 8. Where in the World are Values? Exemplarity and Moral Motivation

Joel Robbins

Chapter 9. Fault Lines in the Anthropology of Ethics

James Laidlaw

PART III: MORAL ENGINES AND THE HUMAN CONDITION

Chapter 10. An Ethics of Dwelling and a Politics of Worldbuilding: Responding to the Demands of the Drug War

Jarrett Zigon

Chapter 11. Human, the Responding Being: Considerations Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Responsiveness

Thomas Schwarz Wentzer

Chapter 12. The History of Responsibility

Francois Raffoul

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.02.2018
Reihe/Serie	WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781785336935 / 9781785336935
Zustand	Neuware