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An Anthropology of Ethics /
"Through an ambitious and critical revision of Michel Foucault's investigation of ethics, James Faubion develops an original program of empirical inquiry into the ethical domain. From an anthropological perspective, Faubion argues that Foucault's specification of the analytical parame...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011, ©2011.
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| Colección: | New departures in anthropology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Through an ambitious and critical revision of Michel Foucault's investigation of ethics, James Faubion develops an original program of empirical inquiry into the ethical domain. From an anthropological perspective, Faubion argues that Foucault's specification of the analytical parameters of this domain is the most productive point of departure in conceptualizing its distinctive features. He further argues that Foucault's framework is in need of substantial revision to be of genuinely anthropological scope. In making this revision, Faubion illustrates his program with two extended case studies: one of a Portuguese marquis and the other of a dual subject made up of the author and a millenarian prophetess. The result is a conceptual apparatus that is able to accommodate ethical pluralism and yield an account of the limits of ethical variation, providing a novel resolution of the problem of relativism that has haunted anthropological inquiry into ethics since its inception"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 306 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139078542 1139078542 9780511792557 0511792557 1139070533 9781139070539 1107221145 9781107221147 1139063855 9781139063852 1283116898 9781283116893 9786613116895 6613116890 1139076256 9781139076258 1139083082 9781139083089 1139080814 9781139080811 |