Anthropology Philosophy : Dialogues on Trust and HopeSune LiisbergEsther Oluffa PedersenAnne Line Dalsgard

The present book is no ordinary anthology, but rather a workroom in which anthropologists and philosophers initiate a dialogue on trust and hope, two important topics for both fields of study. The book combines work between scholars from different universities in the U.S. and Denmark. Thus, besides bringing the two disciplines in dialogue, it also cuts across differences in national contexts and academic style. The interdisciplinary efforts of the contributors demonstrate how such a collaboration can result in new and challenging ways of thinking about trust and hope. Reading the dialogues may, therefore, also inspire others to work in the productive intersection between anthropology and philosophy. Sune Liisberg is an External Lecturer of philosophy of psychology and intercultural communication at Aarhus University. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy and the history of ideas in Aarhus in 2008, and has since published on a variety of topics primarily within the fields of existential philosophy and phenomenology. Esther Oluffa Pedersen is Associate Professor of philosophy at the University of Roskilde. She has published several articles on trust, most recently "A Kantian Conception of Trust" in Sats. Northern European Journal of Philosophy (2013), and more broadly within the history of philosophy and philosophical anthropology, including the book Die Mythosphilosophie Ernst Cassirers (Königshausen & Neumann, 2009). Anne Line Dalsgård is Associate Professor at Aarhus University. Based on periodic fieldwork in Northeast Brazil since 1997, she has published extensively on motherhood, youth, violence, affect and temporality. She is author of the book Matters of Life and Longing: Female Sterilisation in Northeast Brazil (Museum Tusculanum Press, 2004; Editora UNESP, 2006) Trust And Hope : An Introduction / Esther Oluffa Pedersen And Sune Liisberg -- Practical Philosophy And Hope As A Moral Project Among African-americans / Cheryl Mattingly & Uffe Juul Jensen -- What Can We Hope For? : An Exploration In Cosmopolitan Philosophical Anthropology / Cheryl Mattingly And Uffe Juul Jensen -- Existential Anthropology And The Category Of The New / Michael D. Jackson & Thomas Schwarz Wentzer -- The Reopening Of The Gate Of Effort : Existential Imperatives At The Margins Of A Globalized World / Michael D. Jackson -- The Eternal Recurrence Of The New / Thomas Schwarz Wentzer -- Intentional Trust In Uganda / Esther Oluffa Pedersen & Lotte Meinert -- An Outline Of Interpersonal Trust And Distrust / Esther Oluffa Pedersen -- Tricky Trust : Distrust As A Point Of Departure And Trust As A Social Achievement In Uganda / Lotte Meinert -- Trust, Ambiguity, And Indonesian Modernity / Sune Liisberg & Nils Bubandt -- Trust In An Age Of Inauthenticity : Power And Indonesian Modernity / Nils Bubandt -- Trust As The Life Magic Of Self-deception : A Philosophical-psychological Investigation Into Tolerance Of Ambiguity / Sune Liisberg -- Gift-giving And Power Between Trust And Hope / Sverre Raffnsøe & Hirokazu Miyazaki -- Empowering Trust In The New : Trust And Power As Capacities / Sverre Raffnsøe -- Hope In The Gift; Hope In Sleep / Hirokazu Miyazaki -- With Kierkegaard In Africa / Anders Moe Rasmussen & Hans Lucht -- Self, Hope, And The Unconditional : Kierkegaard On Faith And Hope / Anders Moe Rasmussen -- Kierkegaard In West Africa : Hope And Sacrifice In A Ghanaian Fishing Village / Hans Lucht -- Anthropology And Philosophy In Dialogue? / Anne Line Dalsgard And Soren Harnow Klausen. Edited By Sune Liisberg, Esther Oluffa Pedersen, And Anne Line Dalsg̊ard. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. The present book is no ordinary anthology, but rather a workroom in which anthropologists and philosophers initiate a dialogue on trust and hope, two important topics for both fields of study. The book combines work between scholars from different universities in the U.S. and Denmark. Thus, besides bringing the two disciplines in dialogue, it also cuts across differences in national contexts and academic style. The interdisciplinary efforts of the contributors demonstrate how such a collaboration can result in new and challenging ways of thinking about trust and hope. Reading the dialogues may, therefore, also inspire others to work in the productive intersection between anthropology and philosophy. Sune Liisberg is an External Lecturer of philosophy of psychology and intercultural communication at Aarhus University. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy and the history of ideas in Aarhus in 2008, and has since published on a variety of topics primarily within the fields of existential philosophy and phenomenology. Esther Oluffa Pedersen is Associate Professor of philosophy at the University of Roskilde. She has published several articles on trust, most recently "A Kantian Conception of Trust" in __Sats. Northern European Journal of Philosophy__ (2013), and more broadly within the history of philosophy and philosophical anthropology, including the book __Die Mythosphilosophie Ernst Cassirers__ (Königshausen & Neumann, 2009). Anne Line Dalsgård is Associate Professor at Aarhus University. Based on periodic fieldwork in Northeast Brazil since 1997, she has published extensively on motherhood, youth, violence, affect and temporality. She is author of the book __Matters of Life and Longing: Female Sterilisation in Northeast Brazil__ (Museum Tusculanum Press, 2004; Editora UNESP, 2006) The present book is a workroom in which anthropologists and philosophers have begun a dialogue on trust and hope. The interdisciplinary efforts of the contributors demonstrate how the collaboration of anthropologists and philosophers can result in new and challenging ways of thinking about trust and hope.