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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Laidlaw, James
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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.