Philosophy and Anthropology: Border Crossing and Transformations

381 Pages·2013·1.54 MB·English

by  Ananta Kumar Giri

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Philosophy and Anthropology
Border Crossing and
Transformations
Edited by
Ananta Kumar Giri
and John Clammer
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Philosophy and anthropology : border crossing and transformations / edited by
Ananta Kumar Giri and John Clammer.
pages cm. – (Key issues in modern sociology)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-85728-512-6 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Philosophical anthropology. 2. Anthropology–Philosophy.
I. Giri, Ananta Kumar. II. Clammer, J. R.
BD450.P47238 2013
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CONTENTS
Notes on Contributors xi
Introduction Philosophy and Anthropology in Dialogues
and Conversations 1
John Clammer and Ananta Kumar Giri
Part I Nurturing the Field: Towards Mutual
Fecundation and Transformation of
Philosophy and Anthropology
Chapter 1 The Project of Philosophical Anthropology 21
John Clammer
Chapter 2 The Self-Preservation of Man: Remarks on the Relation
between Modernity and Philosophical Anthropology 39
Kasper Lysemose
Chapter 3 Whither Modernity? Hybridization, Postoccidentalism,
Postdevelopment and Transmodernity 57
Ivan Marquez
Chapter 4 Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy
in Anthropology 71
Vaclav Brezina
Chapter 5 The Engagement of Philosophy and Anthropology
in the Interpretive Turn and Beyond: Towards
an Anthropology of the Contemporary 89
Heike Kämpf
Chapter 6 Mediation through Cognitive Dynamics: Philosophical
Anthropology and the Conflicts of Our Time 105
Piet Strydom
viii PHILOSOPHY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
Chapter 7 Philosophy as Anthropocentrism: Language, Life
and Aporia 123
Prasenjit Biswas
Part II Sources of Philosophical Anthropology
Chapter 8 Kant and Anthropology 141
Ananta Kumar Giri
Chapter 9 Dilthey’s Theory of Knowledge and Its Potential for
Anthropological Theory 147
Daniel Šuber
Chapter 10 Malinowski and Philosophy 167
Peter Skalník
Chapter 11 Ground, Self, Sign: The Semiotic Theories of
Charles Sanders Peirce and Their Applications
in Social Anthropology 185
Lars Kjaerholm
Chapter 12 Ricoeur’s Challenge for a Twenty-First
Century Anthropology
Betsy Taylor 201
Chapter 13 Clifford Geertz: The Philosophical Transformation
of Anthropology 217
Gernot Saalmann
Chapter 14 Bakhtin’s Heritage in Anthropology: Alterity
and Dialogue 231
Marcin Brocki
Chapter 15 The Philosophy of Slavoj Žižek and Anthropology:
The Current Situation and Possible Futures 245
Lars Kjaerholm
Chapter 16 Border Crossings between Anthropology
and Buddhist Philosophy 263
Susantha Goonatilake
CONTENTS ix
Part III Philosophical Anthropology at Work
Chapter 17 ‘Anthropology of Philosophy’ in Africa:
The Ethnography of Critical Discourse and
Intellectual Practice 285
Kai Kresse
Chapter 18 Albinos Do Not Die: Belief, Philosophy and
Anthropology 305
João de Pina-Cabral
Chapter 19 Anthropology, Development and the Myth of Culture 323
Robert Feleppa
Chapter 20 Notions of Friendship in Philosophical and
Anthropological Thought 341
Heidrun Friese
Afterword The Return of Philosophical Anthropology 357
Fred Dallmayr