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Border Crossing and Transformations

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Edited by Ananta Giri, John Clammer

Publisher:: Anthem Press
Online publication date:: March 2014
Print publication year:: 2013
Online ISBN:: 9780857280817

Subjects:: Philosophy of Social Science, Philosophy

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'Philosophy and Anthropology: Border Crossings and Transformations' is an innovative and original collection of essays exploring the relationships between philosophy and anthropology - historically and presently - and the theoretical and practical issues concerning their dialogue.

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Border Crossing and Transformations

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-x

Notes on Contributors
pp xi-xvi

Introduction Philosophy and Anthropology in Dialogues and Conversations
pp 1-18

Part I - Nurturing the Field: Towards Mutual Fecundation and Transformation of Philosophy and Anthropology
pp 19-20

Chapter 1 - The Project of Philosophical Anthropology
pp 21-38

Chapter 2 - The Self-Preservation of Man: Remarks on the Relation between Modernity and Philosophical Anthropology
pp 39-56

Chapter 3 - Whither Modernity? Hybridization, Postoccidentalism, Postdevelopment and Transmodernity
pp 57-70

Chapter 4 - Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy in Anthropology
pp 71-88

Chapter 5 - The Engagement of Philosophy and Anthropology in the Interpretive Turn and Beyond: Towards an Anthropology of the Contemporary
pp 89-104

Chapter 6 - Mediation through Cognitive Dynamics: Philosophical Anthropology and the Conflicts of Our Time
pp 105-122

Chapter 7 - Philosophy as Anthropocentrism: Language, Life and Aporia
pp 123-138

Part II - Sources of Philosophical Anthropology
pp 139-140

Chapter 8 - Kant and Anthropology
pp 141-146

Chapter 9 - Dilthey's Theory of Knowledge and Its Potential for Anthropological Theory
pp 147-166

Chapter 10 - Malinowski and Philosophy
pp 167-184

Chapter 11 - Ground, Self, Sign: The Semiotic Theories of Charles Sanders Peirce and Their Applications in Social Anthropology
pp 185-200

Chapter 12 - Ricoeur's Challenge for a Twenty-First Century Anthropology
pp 201-216

Chapter 13 - Clifford Geertz: The Philosophical Transformation of Anthropology
pp 217-230

Chapter 14 - Bakhtin's Heritage in Anthropology: Alterity and Dialogue
pp 231-244

Chapter 15 - The Philosophy of Slavoj Žižek and Anthropology: The Current Situation and Possible Futures
pp 245-262

Chapter 16 - Border Crossings between Anthropology and Buddhist Philosophy
pp 263-282

Part III - Philosophical Anthropology at Work
pp 283-284

Chapter 17 - ‘Anthropology of Philosophy’ in Africa: The Ethnography of Critical Discourse and Intellectual Practice
pp 285-304

Chapter 18 - Albinos Do Not Die: Belief, Philosophy and Anthropology
pp 305-322

Chapter 19 - Anthropology, Development and the Myth of Culture
pp 323-340

Chapter 20 - Notions of Friendship in Philosophical and Anthropological Thought
pp 341-356

Afterword The Return of Philosophical Anthropology
pp 357-364

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