Beyond the Juxtaposition of Nature and Culture: Lawrence Krader, Interdisciplinarity, and the Concept of the Human Being

ISBN-13: 9781433142925 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 304 str.

Cyril Levitt; Sabine Sander

Opis

The essays contained in Beyond the Juxtaposition of Nature and Culture represent an attempt by scholars from Canada, Germany, and Mexico to come to grips with the innovative work of the American philosopher and anthropologist Lawrence Krader (1919-1998).

Spis treści

Cyril Levitt: Preface: Lawrence Krader-a Personal Retrospective in Memoriam - Sabine Sander/Cyril Levitt: Introduction: The "Unknown" Krader: New Encounters - Cyril Levitt: Lawrence Krader: Noetics: The Science of Thinking and Knowing - Human Being in Relation to Several Orders of Nature - Dorothy Pawluch/Kathleen Steeves: Constructionist Reflections on Noetics - Sabine Sander: Variations of the Embodied Self: George H. Mead, Ernst Cassirer, and Lawrence Krader on the Human Being between Nature and Culture - Krader and Anthropology - Antje Linkenbach: Projecting a New Anthropology? Some Reflections on Lawrence Krader's Contribution to the Discipline of Anthropology and His Significance Today - Brígida von Mentz: Krader's Encompassing "Weltanschauung": His Concepts of Art, Techne, and Science, and the Ethno-history of Mesoamerica - Mayán Cervantes: Myth in Krader's Mito e Ideologia Compared with Myth in Noetics - Economics, Labor, and Value - Carsten Herrmann-Pillath: Lawrence Krader's Noetics and Its Implications for Resolving the Methodological Conundrum of the "Naturalistic Turn" in Contemporary Economics - Michelle Goldenberg: Science, Productive and Unproductive Labor, Mediate and Immediate Production - Lawrence Krader: Appendix: Theory of Nature. Theory of Human Being. Workplan - Contributors - Index.

O autorze

Cyril Levitt is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Sociology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He is also a psychoanalyst in private practice in Toronto, Canada.

Sabine Sander is a visiting professor at The Lawrence Krader Research Project at McMaster University, as well as Privatdozentin in Cultural Studies at the University of Koblenz-Landau. She received her Ph.D. in cultural studies at the University of Leipzig. She was the winner of the Max Weber Award for her book on dialogue concepts in the German Jewish context (2017).