Reflecting on Reflexivity

The Human Condition as an Ontological Surprise
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78920-092-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 471 g

Humanness supposes innate and profound reflexivity. This volume approaches the concept of reflexivity on two different yet related analytical planes. Whether implicitly or explicitly, both planes of thought bear critically on reflexivity in relation to the nature of selfhood and the very idea of the autonomous individual, ethics, and humanness, science as such and social science, ontological dualism and fundamental ambiguity. On the one plane, a collection of original and innovative ethnographically based essays is offered, each of which is devoted to ways in which reflexivity plays a fundamental role in human social life and the study of it; on the other—anthropo-philosophical and developed in the volume’s Preface, Introduction, and Postscript—it is argued that reflexivity distinguishes—definitively, albeit relatively—the being and becoming of the human.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Evens, T. M. S. (Terry)

Handelman, Don

Roberts, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Terry Evens, Don Handelman, and Christopher Roberts

Introduction: Reflexivity and Selfhood

Terry Evens, Don Handelman, and Christopher Roberts

SECTION I: REFLEXIVITY, SOCIAL SCIENCE, AND ETHICS

Chapter 1. Is There a Difference between Doing Good and Doing Good Research: Anthropology and Social Activism, or the Productive Limits of Reflexivity

Terry Evens

Chapter 2. The Ethic of Being Wrong: Taking Levinas into the Field

Don Handelman

Chapter 3. Cosmopolitan Reflexivity: Consciousness and the Non-Locality of Ritual Meaning

Koenraad Stroeken

Chapter 4. Religionist Reflexivity and the Machiavellian Believer

Christopher Roberts

SECTION II: REFLEXIVITY, PRACTICE, AND EMBODIMENT

Chapter 5. Wittgenstein's Critique of Representation and the Ethical Reflexivity of Anthropological Discourse

Horacio Ortiz

Chapter 6. Human Cockfighting in the Squared Circle: Thai Boxing as a Matter of Reflexivity

Paul Schissel

Chapter 7. Perfect Praxis in Akido—A Reflexive Body-Self

Einat Bar-On Cohen

SECTION III: REFLEXIVITY, SELF, AND OTHER

Chapter 8. Tension, Reflection, and Agency in the Life of a Hausa Grain Trader

Paul Clough

Chapter 9. Reflexivity in Intersubjective and Intercultural Borderlinking

René Devisch

SECTION IV: REFLEXIVITY, DEMOCRACY, AND GOVERNMENT

Chapter 10. The Latent Effects of the Distribution of Political Reflexivity in Contemporary Democracies

Yaron Ezrahi

Postscript: Reflexivity and Social Science

Terry Evens

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Roberts, Christopher
Christopher Roberts is Professor of Humanities and Religion at Lewis and Clark College.

Handelman, Don
Don Handelman is Sarah Allen Shaine Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the Hebrew University and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Evens, T. M. S. (Terry)
T. M. S. (Terry) Evens is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Christopher Roberts is Professor of Humanities and Religion at Lewis and Clark College.