Moral Engines

Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-693-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Reihe: WYSE Series in Social Anthropology

In the past fifteen years, there has been a virtual explosion of anthropological literature arguing that morality should be considered central to human practice. Out of this explosion new and invigorating conversations have emerged between anthropologists and philosophers. Moral Engines: Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life includes essays from some of the foremost voices in the anthropology of morality, offering unique interdisciplinary conversations between anthropologists and philosophers about the moral engines of ethical life, addressing the question: What propels humans to act in light of ethical ideals?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mattingly, Cheryl

Dyring, Rasmus

Louw, Maria

Wentzer, Thomas Schwarz

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue

Cheryl Mattingly

Chapter 1. The Question of 'Moral Engines': Introducing a Philosophical Anthropological Dialogue

Rasmus Dyring, Cheryl Mattingly, and Maria Louw

PART I: MORAL ENGINES AND HUMAN EXPERIENCE

Chapter 2. Ethics, Immanent Transcendence and the Experimental Narrative Self  

Cheryl Mattingly

Chapter 3. Being Otherwise: On Regret, Morality, and Mood

Jason Throop

Chapter 4. Haunting as Moral Engine: Ethical Striving and Moral Aporias among Sufis in Uzbekistan

Maria Louw

Chapter 5. Every Day: Forgiving after War in Northern Uganda

Lotte Meinert

Chapter 6. The Provocation of Freedom

Rasmus Dyring

PART II: MORAL ENGINES AND 'MORAL FACTS'

Chapter 7. On the Immanence of Ethics

Michael Lambek

Chapter 8. Where in the World are Values? Exemplarity and Moral Motivation

Joel Robbins

Chapter 9. Fault Lines in the Anthropology of Ethics

James Laidlaw

PART III: MORAL ENGINES AND THE HUMAN CONDITION

Chapter 10. An Ethics of Dwelling and a Politics of Worldbuilding: Responding to the Demands of the Drug War

Jarrett Zigon

Chapter 11. Human, the Responding Being:  Considerations Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Responsiveness

Thomas Schwarz Wentzer

Chapter 12. The History of Responsibility

Francois Raffoul

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wentzer, Thomas Schwarz
Thomas Schwarz Wentzer is Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas, Aarhus University. He is author of Bewahrung der Geschichte: Die hermeneutische Philosophie Walter Benjamins (Philo-Verlag 2002), co-editor of Finite but Unbounded: New Approaches in Philosophical Anthropology (DeGruyter 2017).

Louw, Maria
Maria Louw is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University. She is the author of Everyday Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia (Routledge 2007) and a number of other publications focusing on religion, secularism, atheism and morality in Central Asia.

Dyring, Rasmus
Rasmus Dyring is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas, Aarhus University. In dialogue with the anthropology of ethics, Dyring’s research aims at foregrounding the existential dimensions of ethical life. He has published several articles on this subject, for instance, “A Spectacle of Disappearance” (Tropos 2015).

Mattingly, Cheryl
Cheryl Mattingly is Professor of Anthropology at University of Southern California. She is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow and has received numerous awards from the American Anthropological Association, including the Victor Turner Prize, the Stirling Prize and the New Millennium Prize. Her most recent book is Moral Laboratories: Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life (University of California Press 2014).

Cheryl Mattingly is Professor of Anthropology at University of Southern California. She is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow and has received numerous awards from the American Anthropological Association, including the Victor Turner Prize, the Stirling Prize and the New Millennium Prize. Her most recent book is Moral Laboratories: Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life (University of California Press 2014).