Author: Jackson, Michael (1940-)
Title: Existential anthropology : events, exigencies and effects / Michael Jackson
Description: New York : Berghahn Books 2005. 1st edition. Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xxxii. 216 pages; 24 cm. Summary: Throughout this compelling work. Jackson demonstrates that existentialism. far from being a philosophy of individual being. enables us to explore issues of social existence and coexistence in new ways. and to theorize events as the sites of a dynamic interplay between the finite possibilities of the situations in which human beings find themselves and the capacities they possess for creating viable forms of social life.” Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-210) and index. Contents: Preface: The stuggle for being -- The course of an event -- The space of appearances -- Violence and intersubjective reason -- Custom and conflict in Sierra Leone: an essay on anarchy -- What's in a name?: an essay on the power of words -- Mundane ritual -- Biotechnology and the critique of globalisation -- Familiar and foreign bodies -- The prose of suffering -- Whose human rights? -- Existential imperatives -- Bibliography -- Index. Subjects: Philosophical anthropology. Existentialism. Genre: Bibliography.ISBN: 1845451228.

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