Anthropology as Ethics is concerned with rethinking anthropology by
rethinking the nature of reality. It develops the ontological
implications of a defining thesis of the Manchester School: that
all social orders exhibit basically conflicting underlying
principles. Drawing especially on Continental social thought,
including Wittgenstein, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Dumont, Bourdieu
and others, and on pre-modern sources such as the Hebrew bible, the
Nuer, the Dinka, and the Azande, the book mounts a radical study of
the ontology of self and other in relation to dualism and
nondualism. It demonstrates how the self-other dichotomy disguises
fundamental ambiguity or nondualism, thus obscuring the essentially
ethical, dilemmatic, and sacrificial nature of all social life. It
also proposes a reason other than dualist, nihilist, and
instrumental, one in which logic is seen as both inimical to and
continuous with value. Without embracing absolutism, the book makes
ambiguity and paradox the foundation of an ethical response to the
pervasive anti-foundationalism of much postmodern thought.
T. M. S. (Terry) Evens is Professor of Anthropology at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received his Ph.D.
at the University of Manchester in 1971. He has held visiting
appointments at the University of Chicago, the Ecoles des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales, the University of Calcutta, and Asmara
University, Eritrea. He is author of Two Kinds of Rationality:
Kibbutz Democracy and Generational Conflict (1995), and co-editor
of the collections, Transcendence in Society: Case Studies (1990)
and The Manchester School: Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in
Anthropology (2006). Drawn especially to theory and phenomenology,
he has sought from the beginnings of his professional career to
isolate, identify, and critically explore philosophical
underpinnings of empirical anthropology.
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