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Self and Community in a Changing World
Revisiting African philosophy's classic questions, D. A. Masolo advances
understandings of what it means to be human -- whether of African or other origin.
Masolo reframes indigenous knowledge as diversity: How are we to understand the
place and structure of consciousness? How does the everyday color the world we know?
Where are the boundaries between self and other, universal and particular, and
individual and community? From here, he takes a dramatic turn toward Africa's
current political situation and considers why individual rights and freedoms have
not been recognized, respected, demanded, or enforced. Masolo offers solutions for
containing socially destructive conduct and antisocial tendencies by engaging
community. His unique thinking about community and the role of the individual
extends African philosophy in new, global directions.
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Human being
\"Langan draws on a lifetime of study to offer a new understanding of the central question of our existence, turning to phenomenology and philosophical anthropology to help us better understand who we are as individuals and communities and what makes us act the way we do\"--Provided by publisher.
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Textures of the ordinary : doing anthropology after Wittgenstein
Textures of the Ordinary shows how life is marked not only by catastrophic events but also by the soft knife of economic deprivation and the repetitive corrosions and routine violence within everyday life itself. As an alternative to normative ethics, this book develops ordinary ethics as attentiveness to the other and as the ability of small acts of care to stand up to horrific violence.
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Breaking boundaries
Liminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for understanding transformation in a globalizing world. As a fundamental human experience, liminality transmits cultural practices, codes, rituals, and meanings in situations that fall between defined structures and have uncertain outcomes. Based on case studies of some of the most important crises in history, society, and politics, this volume explores the methodological range and applicability of the concept to a variety of concrete social and political problems.
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Narrating Experiences of Alzheimer's Through the Arts
While Alzheimer's might be associated with a difficulty to express oneself, Ana Paula Barbosa-Fohrmann addresses this topic by examining experiences with Alzheimer's based on narratives.In this original contribution, she studies the nexus of life stories, subjectivity, fragmentation, and fiction.
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