The Ethical Condition : Essays on Action, Person, and Value - Michael Lambek

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The Ethical Condition

Essays on Action, Person, and Value

By: Michael Lambek

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Paperback | 23 October 2015 | Edition Number 1

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Ethics is currently a topic of great interest in anthropology. Some people speak of an ethical turn' and yet the subject has always been there. The essays inThe Ethical Condition: Essays on Action, Person, and Value chart the trajectory of the distinguished anthropologist Michael Lambek as a contributor to the subject over the course of thirty years. They draw on both his ethnography and his reading in philosophy but this work is neither primarily ethnographic nor philosophical but distinctively anthropological in its contribution. The general argument is that ethics is intrinsic to human being, that our human condition is an ethical condition. This does not mean that we always act well or for the good but that we can only act with respect to criteria; we are subject to ethical judgment. The volume consists of a substantial and newly written introduction that sketches the main themes and issues as Lambek sees them now. It considers such questions as the conversation between anthropology and philosophy, whether to distinguish ethics' from morality', and how to think about ethics with respect to several key words or concepts, including freedom, action, judgment, acknowledgment, ritual, irony, passion, and the ordinary. The essays interweave several themes that form overall a sustained argument, in a sequence that produces a kind of hermeneutic spiral in which a set of issues are revisited over time, each visit adding something new to the emerging approach and simultaneously clarifying and thickening the account.

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"Lambek is an outstanding anthropologist whose work has shaped the directions of anthropological thinking, especially in the fields of religion, ethics, and spirit possession--each field inflected creatively by the other. As one reads these essays, one begins to engage not only with the evolution of Lambek's thought but with the pivotal controversies that mark the emergence of a vigorous debate on ethics, freedom, obligation, and the making of the moral person in anthropology. Throughout we are made aware not only of the theoretical sophistication and the fidelity to the ethnographic record in Lambek's writing but also of the fact that these ideas on ethics are not just intellectual games for him--they are ways of living and working. This collection is a truly outstanding account of the various pathways open for anthropology to think about ethics and morality."--Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University

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