The Ground Between: Anthropologists Engage PhilosophyVeena Das, Michael Jackson, Arthur Kleinman, Bhrigupati Singh The guiding inspiration of this book is the attraction and distance that mark the relation between anthropology and philosophy. This theme is explored through encounters between individual anthropologists and particular regions of philosophy. Several of the most basic concepts of the discipline—including notions of ethics, politics, temporality, self and other, and the nature of human life—are products of a dialogue, both implicit and explicit, between anthropology and philosophy. These philosophical undercurrents in anthropology also speak to the question of what it is to experience our being in a world marked by radical difference and otherness. In The Ground Between, twelve leading anthropologists offer intimate reflections on the influence of particular philosophers on their way of seeing the world, and on what ethnography has taught them about philosophy. Ethnographies of the mundane and the everyday raise fundamental issues that the contributors grapple with in both their lives and their thinking. With directness and honesty, they relate particular philosophers to matters such as how to respond to the suffering of the other, how concepts arise in the give and take of everyday life, and how to be attuned to the world through the senses. Their essays challenge the idea that philosophy is solely the province of professional philosophers, and suggest that certain modalities of being in the world might be construed as ways of doing philosophy. Contributors. João Biehl, Steven C. Caton, Vincent Crapanzano, Veena Das, Didier Fassin, Michael M. J. Fischer, Ghassan Hage, Clara Han, Michael Jackson, Arthur Kleinman, Michael Puett, Bhrigupati Singh |
Contents
Reflections on Anthropology and Philosophy in | |
West AfricanSetting | |
The Parallel Lives of Philosophy and Anthropology | |
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Ethnography in the Way of Theory | |
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Reading alongside Benjamin | |
Ghosts Philosophy and Anthropology | |
Michael Puett | |
Must We Be Bad Epistemologists? Illusions of Transparency | |
Recounting Household | |
References | |
Contributors | |
Affirmative | |
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