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The Ethical Condition: Essays on Action, Person, and Value

By Michael Lambek

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780226292243, 022629224X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
832 kB (852154 bytes)
Pages
388\0
Time added
2023-04-14 06:30:32

Description

"This volume contains a selection of my essays that attend ethnographically to ethical life, to the action entailed in becoming and being a person, and to the relationship of acts and persons to value. The essays address central questions of social theory from an assumption and by means of a demonstration of the pervasiveness of what I elaborate as ethical. The ethical in my vocabulary is not an object, not a distinct compartment of the social, so much as a force, dimension, or quality of human existence. To attend to the ethical is to look at social life in a certain way and to put it under a certain kind of description. Ignoring the ethical leaves ethnographicl description thin and risks caricature in place of social analysis"--Preface.

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