The guiding inspiration of this book is the attraction and distance
that mark the relation between anthropology and philosophy. This
theme is explored through encounters between individual
anthropologists and particular regions of philosophy. Several of
the most basic concepts of the discipline--including notions of
ethics, politics, temporality, self and other, and the nature of
human life--are products of a dialogue, both implicit and explicit,
between anthropology and philosophy. These philosophical
undercurrents in anthropology also speak to the question of what it
is to experience our being in a world marked by radical difference
and otherness. In "The Ground Between," twelve leading
anthropologists offer intimate reflections on the influence of
particular philosophers on their way of seeing the world, and on
what ethnography has taught them about philosophy. Ethnographies of
the mundane and the everyday raise fundamental issues that the
contributors grapple with in both their lives and their thinking.
With directness and honesty, they relate particular philosophers to
matters such as how to respond to the suffering of the other, how
concepts arise in the give and take of everyday life, and how to be
attuned to the world through the senses. Their essays challenge the
idea that philosophy is solely the province of professional
philosophers, and suggest that certain modalities of being in the
world might be construed as ways of doing philosophy.
"Contributors." Joao Biehl, Steven C. Caton, Vincent Crapanzano,
Veena Das, Didier Fassin, Michael M. J. Fischer, Ghassan Hage,
Clara Han, Michael Jackson, Arthur Kleinman, Michael Puett,
Bhrigupati Singh
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