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Author : Margaret Chatterjee
Release : 2007
Genre : Ethics
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Book Rating : 332/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Lifeworlds and Ethics by : Margaret Chatterjee
Download or read book Lifeworlds and Ethics written by Margaret Chatterjee. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Jackson
Release : 2013-08-03
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 818/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Wherewithal of Life by : Michael Jackson
Download or read book The Wherewithal of Life written by Michael Jackson. This book was released on 2013-08-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wherewithal of Life engages with current developments in the anthropology of ethics and migration studies to explore in empirical depth and detail the life experiences of three young men – a Ugandan migrant in Copenhagen, a Burkina Faso migrant in Amsterdam, and a Mexican migrant in Boston – in ways that significantly broaden our understanding of the existential situations and ethical dilemmas of those migrating from the global south. Michael Jackson offers the first biographically based phenomenological account of migration and mobility, providing new insights into the various motives, tactics, dilemmas, dreams, and disappointments that characterize contemporary migration. It is argued that the quandaries of African or Mexican migrants are not unique to people moving between ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’ worlds. While more intensely felt by the young, seeking to find a way out of a world of limited opportunity and circumscribed values, the experiences of transition are familiar to us all, whatever our age, gender, ethnicity or social status – namely, the impossibility of calculating what one may lose in leaving a settled life or home place; what one may gain by risking oneself in an alien environment; the difficulty of striking a balance between personal fulfillment and the moral claims of kinship; and the struggle to know the difference between ‘concrete’ and ‘abstract’ utopias (the first reasonable and worth pursuing; the second hopelessly unattainable).
Author : Michael Jackson
Release : 2013
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 649/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Lifeworlds by : Michael Jackson
Download or read book Lifeworlds written by Michael Jackson. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4e de couv.: Michael Jackson's Lifeworlds is a masterful collection of essays, the culmination of a career of exploring the relationship between anthropology and philosophy. Drawing inspiration from James, Dewey, Arendt, Husserl, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty, and from ethnographic fieldwork among the Kuranko of Sierra Leone, the Warlpiri of Central Australia, and the Maori of Aotearoa (New Zealand), Jackson outlines an existential anthropology grounded in the dynamics and quandaries of everyday life. He offers a pragmatic understanding of how people act to make their lives more viable, to bridge the gap between self and other, to grasp the elusive, and to transform abstract possibilities into embodied truths.
Author : Margaret Chatterjee
Release : 2007
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Book Rating : 338/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Lifeworlds and Ethics by : Margaret Chatterjee
Download or read book Lifeworlds and Ethics written by Margaret Chatterjee. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Werner Marx
Release : 1992-10-14
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Towards a Phenomenological Ethics by : Werner Marx
Download or read book Towards a Phenomenological Ethics written by Werner Marx. This book was released on 1992-10-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the possibility of a contemporary ethics of compassion based upon the experience of human mortality. During an age in which the traditional metaphysical guarantors of order, transcendent sources of meaning, and appeals to human rationality are becoming historical phenomena, it is important to investigate whether an alternative source of measure for human conduct can be discovered through phenomenological analysis. Marx shows how a confrontation with one's mortality, as a basic condition of human existence which is ignored or actively avoided for the most part, can transform a person's attitude from one of indifference to one of active concern for other human beings; how it can heighten one's awareness of the social nature of human existence; and how it can serve as an integrative force in the various spheres of human life. The transformation Marx outlines depends, not upon deliberation and conscious decision, or upon a demand to conform to formal rules or maxims, but rather, upon a change in one's emotional attunement toward others, out of which a more compassionate conduct emerges almost automatically. He shows how the awareness of one's limitations and dependencies as a mortal can raise sociality to an important and pervasive factor in human existence instead of a merely unpleasant or indifferent fact. Marx also shows how the development of the notion of "world" as a sphere of human concerns has been accompanied by a deterioration of the traditional idea of the world as a seamless unity or an integrated whole, and he points out that a transformed ethical awareness of others as fellow mortals helps provide a unifying meaning to the disparate worlds in which we all live.
