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The Ethical Condition: Essays on Action, Person, and Value
Michael Lambek
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Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 231 x 29. Weight in Grams: 596.
Written over a thirty-year span, Michael Lambek's essays in this collection point with definitive force toward a single central truth: ethics is intrinsic to social life. As he shows through rich ethnographic accounts and multiple theoretical traditions, our human condition is at heart an ethical one-we may not always be good or just, but we are always subject to their criteria. Detailing Lambek's trajectory as one anthropologist thinking deeply throughout a career on the nature of ethical life, the essays accumulate into a vibrant demonstration of the relevance of ethics as a practice and its crucial importance to ethnography, social ... Read more
Written over a thirty-year span, Michael Lambek's essays in this collection point with definitive force toward a single central truth: ethics is intrinsic to social life. As he shows through rich ethnographic accounts and multiple theoretical traditions, our human condition is at heart an ethical one-we may not always be good or just, but we are always subject to their criteria. Detailing Lambek's trajectory as one anthropologist thinking deeply throughout a career on the nature of ethical life, the essays accumulate into a vibrant demonstration of the relevance of ethics as a practice and its crucial importance to ethnography, social ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
595g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226292243
SKU
V9780226292243
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About Michael Lambek
Michael Lambek is professor of anthropology and a Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He is the author of several books, most recently The Weight of the Past, and editor or coeditor of several more, including Ordinary Ethics and A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion.
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