Recovering the human subject : freedom, creativity, and decision /
Recovering the human subject : freedom, creativity, and decision /
edited by James Laidlaw, Barbara Bodenhorn, Martin Holbraad.
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Half-title page; Frontispiece; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Freedom, Creativity, and Decision in Recovering the Human Subject; 2 Reassembling Individual Subjects: Events and Decisions in Troubled Times; Part I Decision; 3 On Singularity and the Event: Further Reflections on the Ordinary; 4 Apathy and Revolution: Temporal Sensibilities in Contemporary Mongolia; 5 Apparitions of the Virgin Mary as Decision-Events; Part II Freedom; 6 Incidental Connections: Freedom and Urban Life in Mongolia 7 The Return to Slavery? Nostalgia and a New Generation of Escape in Southwest ChinaPart III Creativity; 8 Paradoxical Pedagogies and Humanist Double Binds; 9 Where in the World Are Values? Exemplarity, Morality, and Social Process; Index
Whilst anthropocentric Western modernity has come to be held primarily responsible for various political, economic, social, and ecological issues, the search for new ways of thinking about what human beings are and how to conceptualise them has become more important. This volume responds to the often proclaimed 'death of the subject' and common debate across the social sciences for post-humanist approaches in a distinctively anthropological manner. It asks: can we use the intellectual resources developed in those debates to reconstruct a new account of how individual human subjects are contingently put together in diverse historical and ethnographic contexts? Anthropologists know that the people they work with think in terms of particular, distinctive, individual human personalities, and that in times of change and crisis these individuals matter crucially to how things turn out. The volume features a classic essay by Caroline Humphrey, 'Reassembling Individual Subjects' that provides a focus for the debate to bring together a range of theoretical approaches and rich and varied ethnography.
9781108692328
Anthropology--Philosophy.
Electronic Books.
GN33 / .R436 2018
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Half-title page; Frontispiece; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Freedom, Creativity, and Decision in Recovering the Human Subject; 2 Reassembling Individual Subjects: Events and Decisions in Troubled Times; Part I Decision; 3 On Singularity and the Event: Further Reflections on the Ordinary; 4 Apathy and Revolution: Temporal Sensibilities in Contemporary Mongolia; 5 Apparitions of the Virgin Mary as Decision-Events; Part II Freedom; 6 Incidental Connections: Freedom and Urban Life in Mongolia 7 The Return to Slavery? Nostalgia and a New Generation of Escape in Southwest ChinaPart III Creativity; 8 Paradoxical Pedagogies and Humanist Double Binds; 9 Where in the World Are Values? Exemplarity, Morality, and Social Process; Index
Whilst anthropocentric Western modernity has come to be held primarily responsible for various political, economic, social, and ecological issues, the search for new ways of thinking about what human beings are and how to conceptualise them has become more important. This volume responds to the often proclaimed 'death of the subject' and common debate across the social sciences for post-humanist approaches in a distinctively anthropological manner. It asks: can we use the intellectual resources developed in those debates to reconstruct a new account of how individual human subjects are contingently put together in diverse historical and ethnographic contexts? Anthropologists know that the people they work with think in terms of particular, distinctive, individual human personalities, and that in times of change and crisis these individuals matter crucially to how things turn out. The volume features a classic essay by Caroline Humphrey, 'Reassembling Individual Subjects' that provides a focus for the debate to bring together a range of theoretical approaches and rich and varied ethnography.
9781108692328
Anthropology--Philosophy.
Electronic Books.
GN33 / .R436 2018