Description: Philosophy and anthropology have long debated questions of difference: rationality versus irrationality, abstraction versus concreteness, modern versus premodern. What if these disciplines instead focused on the commonalities of human experience? Would this effort bring philosophers and anthropologists closer together? Would it lead to greater insights across historical and cultural divides?In As Wide as the World Is Wise, Michael Jackson encourages philosophers and anthropologists to mine the space between localized and globalized perspectives, to resolve empirically the distinctions between the one and the many and between life and specific forms of life. His project balances abstract epistemological practice with immanent reflection, promoting a more situated, embodied, and sensuous approach to the world and its in-between spaces. Drawing on a lifetime of ethnographic fieldwork in West Africa and Aboriginal Australia, Jackson resets the language and logic of academic thought from the standpoint of other lifeworlds. He extends Kant's cosmopolitan ideal to include all human societies, achieving a radical break with elite ideas of the subjective and a more expansive conception of truth.
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EAN: 9780231178280
UPC: 9780231178280
ISBN: 9780231178280
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Book Title: As Wide as the World Is Wise: Reinventing Philosop
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Name: As Wide As the World Is Wise : Reinventing Philosophical Anthropology
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: Methodology, Movements / Pragmatism, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / General
Publication Year: 2016
Item Weight: 20.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Philosophy, Social Science
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Michael D. Jackson
Item Width: 7.4 in
Format: Hardcover
