‘I am Here’, Abraham Said

Emmanuel Levinas and Anthropological Science

Nigel Rapport (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-470-9 (ISBN)

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One of the most significant philosophical voices of the twentieth century – the philosopher of ‘the Other’ – Emmanuel Levinas’s work offers a challenge to the discipline of anthropology that claims knowledge of the human. This book endeavours to take Levinasian and anthropological precepts on ‘humanistic science’ equally seriously and offers tentative conclusions.

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.

Nigel Rapport is Emeritus Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St Andrews. He is Founding Director of the St Andrews Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies. His most recent book was Cosmopolitan Love and Individuality: Ethical Engagement beyond Culture (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019).

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Acknowledgments

Part I

Introduction: Why Levinas?

Chapter 1. Cosmopolitan Anthropology: A Moral Vision of Human Being and Individual Love

Part II

Chapter 2. At Home in the Integument of the Body: Perceiving beyond Language and Culture

Chapter 3. Being Inspired to Practise an Acultural Ethical Relationality: Testifying

Chapter 4. Tracing the Density of Human Being and Loving the Invisible, Silent Other

Chapter 5. ‘Jews Belong to Eternity’: Attending Selflessly to the Dimension of Homeless Humankind

Conclusion: Another Phenomenology: Ego and Other Always and Already Conjoined in Creation

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Erscheinungsdatum	06.03.2024
Reihe/Serie	Methodology & History in Anthropology
Zusatzinfo	3 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-470-3 / 1805394703
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-470-9 / 9781805394709
Zustand	Neuware