Anthropology & philosophy

Anthropology & philosophy: dialogues on trust and hope

by Dalsgard, Anne Line Liisberg, Sune Pedersen, Esther Oluffa

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The present book is no ordinary anthology, but rather a workroom in which anthropologists and philosophers initiate a dialogue on trust and hope, two important topics for both fields of study. The book combines work between scholars from different universities in the U.S. and Denmark. Thus, besides bringing the two disciplines in dialogue, it also cuts across differences in national contexts and academic style. The interdisciplinary efforts of the contributors demonstrate how such a collaborati…

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  • Full title :Anthropology & philosophy : dialogues on trust and hope / edited by Sune Liisberg, Esther Oluffa Pedersen, and Anne Line Dalsg̊ard.

Summary

The present book is no ordinary anthology, but rather a workroom in which anthropologists and philosophers initiate a dialogue on trust and hope, two important topics for both fields of study. The book combines work between scholars from different universities in the U.S. and Denmark. Thus, besides bringing the two disciplines in dialogue, it also cuts across differences in national contexts and academic style. The interdisciplinary efforts of the contributors demonstrate how such a collaboration can result in new and challenging ways of thinking about trust and hope. Reading the dialogues ma.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2015.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Berghahn Books
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2015.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:1322950768, 9781322950761, 9781782385578, 1782385576
  • oclc:ocn903317396
  • LC Classification:BD450
  • Dewey Decimal:301.01

Table of Contents

Trust and hope : an introduction / Esther Oluffa Pedersen and Sune Liisberg -- Practical philosophy and hope as a moral project among African-Americans / Cheryl Mattingly & Uffe Juul Jensen -- What can we hope for? : an exploration in cosmopolitan philosophical anthropology / Cheryl Mattingly and Uffe Juul Jensen -- Existential anthropology and the category of the new / Michael D. Jackson & Thomas Schwarz Wentzer -- The reopening of the gate of effort : existential imperatives at the margins of a globalized world / Michael D. Jackson -- The eternal recurrence of the new / Thomas Schwarz Wentzer -- Intentional trust in Uganda / Esther Oluffa Pedersen & Lotte Meinert -- An outline of interpersonal trust and distrust / Esther Oluffa Pedersen -- Tricky trust : distrust as a point of departure and trust as a social achievement in Uganda / Lotte Meinert -- Trust, ambiguity, and Indonesian modernity / Sune Liisberg & Nils Bubandt -- Trust in an age of inauthenticity : power and Indonesian modernity / Nils Bubandt -- Trust as the life magic of self-deception : a philosophical-psychological investigation into tolerance of ambiguity / Sune Liisberg -- Gift-giving and power between trust and…

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Subjects

Anthropologie -- Philosophie Anthropologie philosophique Anthropology -- Philosophy Confiance Confidence Espérance Hope Philosophical anthropology Philosophy (General) SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology Trust

Writers

Dalsgard, Anne Line Liisberg, Sune Pedersen, Esther Oluffa

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