The Philosophical Roots Of Anthropology
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Author | : William Yewdale Adams |
Publisher | : Stanford Univ Center for the Study |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781575861289 |
Anthropologists claim to have made mankind aware of its own prehistory and its importance to human self-understanding. Yet, anthropologists seem hardly to have discovered their own discipline's prehistory or to have realized its importance. William Y. Adams attempts to rectify this myopic self-awareness by applying anthropology's own tools on itself and uncovering the discipline's debt to earlier thinkers. Like most anthropologists, Adams had previously accepted the premise that anthropology's intellectual roots go back no further than the moral philosophy of the Enlightenment, or perhaps at the earliest to the humanism of the Renaissance. In this volume, Adams recognizes that many good ideas were anticipated in antiquity and that these ideas have had a lasting influence on anthropological models in particular. He has chosen five philosophical currents whose influence has been, and is, very widespread, particularly in North American anthropology: progressivism, primitivism, natural law, German idealism, and "Indianology". He argues that the influences of these currents in North American anthropology occur in a unique combination that is not found in the anthropologies of other countries. Without neglecting the anthropologies of other countries, this work serves as the basis for the explanation of the true historical and philosophical underpinnings of anthropology and its goals.
Author | : Ananta Kumar Giri |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2013-12-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0857280813 |
Philosophy and anthropology have many, but largely unexplored, links and interrelationships. Historically, they have informed each other in subtle ways. This volume of original essays explores and enhances this relationship through anthropological engagement with philosophy and vice versa, the nature, sources and history of philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, and the practical, methodological and theoretical implications of a dialogue between the two subjects. ‘Philosophy and Anthropology: Border Crossings and Transformations’ seeks to enrich both the humanities and the social sciences through its informative and stimulating essays.
Author | : Ernst Tugendhat |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2016-10-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0231542933 |
In Egocentricity and Mysticism, Ernst Tugendhat casts mysticism as an innate facet of what it means to be human—a response to an existential need for peace of mind. This need is created by our discursive practices, which serve to differentiate us from one another and privilege our respective first-person standpoints. Emphasizing the first person fuels a desire for mysticism, which builds knowledge of what binds us together and connects us to the world. Any intellectual pursuit that prompts us to "step back" from our egocentric concerns harbors a mystic kernel that manifests as a sense of awe, wonder, and gratitude. Philosophy, the natural sciences, and mathematics all engender forms of mystical experience as profound as any produced by meditation and asceticism. One of the most widely discussed books by a German philosopher in decades, Egocentricity and Mysticism is a philosophical milestone that clarifies in groundbreaking ways our relationship to language, social interaction, and mortality.
Author | : Maxine Sheets-Johnstone |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2010-04-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1439903654 |
A ground-breaking interdisciplinary study about conceptual origins linking hominid thinking with hominid evolution.
Author | : George W. Stocking |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 1982-04-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0226774945 |
"We have, at long last, a real historian with real historical skills and no intra-professional ax to grind. . . . All these pieces show the virtues one finds missing in . . . nearly all of anthropological history work but [Stocking's]: extensive and critical use of archival sources, tracing of real rather than merely plausible intellectual connections, and contextualization of ideas and movements in terms of broader social and cultural currents. Stocking writes very clearly; attacks important topics—race and evolution, the influence of scientism, the interaction between anthropology and other disciplines; and is methodologically very sophisticated. Though his main theme is the development of racialism and of opposition to it, his book bears on a range of issues very much alive in anthropology. . . . I would think no apprentice anthropologist ought to be pronounced a journeyman until he or she has absorbed what Stocking has to say."—Clifford Geertz, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Author | : John H. Zammito |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 589 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0226978591 |
If Kant had never made the "critical turn" of 1773, would he be worth more than a paragraph in the history of philosophy? Most scholars think not. But this text challenges that view by revealing a precritical Kant who was immensely more influential than the one philosophers think they know.
Author | : Martin Demant Frederiksen |
Publisher | : John Hunt Publishing |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2018-08-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 178535700X |
There have been claims that meaninglessness has become epidemic in the contemporary world. One perceived consequence of this is that people increasingly turn against both society and the political establishment with little concern for the content (or lack of content) that might follow. Most often, encounters with meaninglessness and nothingness are seen as troubling. "Meaning" is generally seen as being a cornerstone of the human condition, as that which we strive towards. This was famously explored by Viktor Frankl in Man’s Search for Meaning in which he showed how even in the direst of situations individuals will often seek to find a purpose in life. But what, then, is at stake when groups of people negate this position? What exactly goes on inside this apparent turn towards nothing, in the engagement with meaninglessness? And what happens if we take the meaningless seriously as an empirical fact?
Author | : Mark Goldie |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 944 |
Release | : 2006-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521374224 |
Author | : Alan Barnard |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2000-06-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1316101932 |
Anthropology is a discipline very conscious of its history, and Alan Barnard has written a clear, balanced and judicious textbook that surveys the historical contexts of the great debates and traces the genealogies of theories and schools of thought. It also considers the problems involved in assessing these theories. The book covers the precursors of anthropology; evolutionism in all its guises; diffusionism and culture area theories, functionalism and structural-functionalism; action-centred theories; processual and Marxist perspectives; the many faces of relativism, structuralism and post-structuralism; and recent interpretive and postmodernist viewpoints.
Author | : Allegra de Laurentiis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2021-08-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780810143777 |
A groundbreaking contribution to scholarship on Hegel and nineteenth-century philosophy, this book makes the case that the "Anthropology" is essential to understanding Hegel's philosophy of spirit in its connection with the philosophy of nature.