Recovering the Human Subject: Freedom, Creativity and Decision

ISBN-13: 9781108424967 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 206 str.

James Laidlaw; Barbara Bodenhorn; Martin Holbraad

Opis

A focused debate on human subjectivity and post-humanism, with a range of theoretical and ethnographic responses to a classic article.

Recenzje

'This collection is something of a Festschrift. It justly highlights Caroline Humphrey's seminal thoughts on the anthropology of sociocultural dynamics and their ethical inflections. All of the contributors pay homage to Humphrey's special gifts in synthesizing the philosophical and the ethnographic, her conceptual originality and, above all, her acute critical reflections on the limitations and incautiousness of the post-humanist turn in social and cultural thought. Yet, it's a Festschrift with a twist. The distinguished scholars whose essays appear in the collection don't rest with paeans. They instead supplement and enlarge Humphrey's insights. In every instance, they demonstrate that those insights enrich anthropological conversations already ongoing, but also open doors to anthropological conversations yet to come. The result is a must-read - analytically sparkling and elegantly composed from start to finish.' James D. Faubion

Spis treści

1. Introduction: freedom, creativity, and decision in recovering human subject Barbara Bodenhorn, Martin Holbraad and James Laidlaw; 2. Reassembling individual subjects: events and decisions in troubled times Caroline Humphrey; Part I. Decision: 3. On singularity and the event: further reflections on the ordinary Veena Das; 4. Apathy and revolution: temporal sensibilities in contemporary Mongolia Lars Højer; 5. Apparitions of the Virgin Mary as decision-events Agnieszka Halemba; Part II. Freedom: 6. Incidental connections: freedom and urban life in Mongolia Morten Axel Pedersen; 7. The return to slavery? Nostalgia and a new generation of escape in Southwest China Katherine Swancutt (苏梦林) and Jiarimuji (嘉日姆几); Part III. Creativity: 8. Paradoxical pedagogies and humanist double binds Matei Candea; 9. Where in the world are values? Exemplarity, morality, and social process Joel Robbins.