‘I am Here’, Abraham Said: Emmanuel Levinas and Anthropological Science (Methodology & History in Anthropology, 47)

‘I am Here’, Abraham Said: Emmanuel Levinas and Anthropological Science (Methodology & History in Anthropology, 47)
by: Nigel Rapport (Author)
Publisher:Berghahn Books
Publication Date: April 1, 2024
Language:English
Print Length:208 pages
ISBN-10:1805394703
ISBN-13:9781805394709
Book Description
Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophical work on ‘the Other’ offers a challenge to the discipline of anthropology that claims knowledge of the human. For Levinas, the ‘secrecy’ of subjectivity – a fundamental facet of the human condition – demands an ethics of ignorance and not-knowing; the mystery of otherness is only to be approached through ‘inspiration’. Can anthropology meet a Levinasian challenge if it would define itself as a science as well as a humanistic documentation of social life? This book endeavours to take Levinasian and anthropological precepts equally seriously and offers a radical conclusion.
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Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophical work on ‘the Other’ offers a challenge to the discipline of anthropology that claims knowledge of the human. For Levinas, the ‘secrecy’ of subjectivity – a fundamental facet of the human condition – demands an ethics of ignorance and not-knowing; the mystery of otherness is only to be approached through ‘inspiration’. Can anthropology meet a Levinasian challenge if it would define itself as a science as well as a humanistic documentation of social life? This book endeavours to take Levinasian and anthropological precepts equally seriously and offers a radical conclusion. Read more