Reflecting on Reflexivity: The Human Condition as an Ontological Surprise

ISBN 10: 178238751X ISBN 13: 9781782387510

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 178238751X
• ISBN 13: 9781782387510
• Einband: Bibliothekseinband
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 324
• Herausgeber: Evens T. M. S. (Terry), Handelman Don, Roberts Christopher
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland