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An Anthropology of Ethics

  • Hardback
  • 316 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2 cm

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For students and scholars of ethics and anthropology

Revises Foucault's theories for better understanding

You will gain new insights into ethical pluralism

This book explores ethics through an anthropological lens, revising Foucault's ideas.

Through an ambitious and critical revision of Michel Foucault's investigation of ethics, James Faubion develops an original program of empirical inquiry into the ethical domain. From an anthropological perspective, Faubion argues that Foucault's specification of the analytical parameters of this domain is the most productive point of departure in conceptualizing its distinctive features. He further argues that Foucault's framework is in need of substantial revision to be of genuinely anthropological scope. In making this revision, Faubion illustrates his program with two extended case studies: one of a Portuguese marquis and the other of a dual subject made up of the author and a millenarian prophetess. The result is a conceptual apparatus that is able to accommodate ethical pluralism and yield an account of the limits of ethical variation, providing a novel resolution of the problem of relativism that has haunted anthropological inquiry into ethics since its inception.
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  • Title

    An Anthropology of Ethics

  • Author

    James D. Faubion

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    April 2011

  • Weight

    595g

  • Page Count

    316

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9781107004948

  • ISBN-10

    1107004942

  • Eden Code

    4590694

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