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.
| ISBN: | 9781805394709 |
| Publication date: | 1st April 2024 |
| Author: | Nigel Rapport |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 208 pages |
| Series: | Methodology and History in Anthropology |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural anthropology Humanist philosophy Social and political philosophy |
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.
'I Am Here', Abraham Said features in the following genres: Social and cultural anthropology, Humanist philosophy, Social and political philosophy
'I Am Here', Abraham Said is available in Hardback
'I Am Here', Abraham Said was written by Nigel Rapport and published by Berghahn Books
'I Am Here', Abraham Said has 208 pages
Yes it is part of Methodology and History in Anthropology series
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