The ethical condition : essays on action, person, and value /
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 demonstr...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2015]
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xxv, 361 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [329]-350) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226292106 022629210X 9780226292243 022629224X |