The subject of virtue : an anthropology of ethics and freedom /
The anthropology of ethics has become an important and fast-growing field in recent years. This book argues that it represents not just a new subfield within anthropology but a conceptual renewal of the discipline as a whole, enabling it to take account of a major dimension of human conduct which so...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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Series: | New departures in anthropology.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Beyond the science of unfreedom
- 2. Virtue ethics : philosophy with an ethnographic stance?
- 3. Foucault's genealogy and the undefined work of freedom
- 4. The 'question of freedom' in anthropology
- 5. Taking responsibility seriously
- 6. The reluctant cannibal.