New Perspectives on Moral Change: Anthropologists and Philosophers Engage with Transformations of Life Worlds 13

The world we live in is constantly changing. Climate change, transforming gender conceptions, emerging issues of food consumption, novel forms of family life and technological developments are altering central areas of our forms of life. This raises questions of how to cope with and understand the moral changes implicit in such alterations. This volume is the first to address moral change as such. It brings together anthropologists and philosophers to discuss how to study and theorize the change of norms, concepts, emotions, moral frameworks and forms of personhood. Contents Introduction. Moral Change in Philosophy and Anthropology Chapter 1. Moral Change through the Lens of Marriage Chapter 2. Queering ‘Ayb in the Urban Landscapes of Amman Chapter 3. Ordinary Possibility, Transcendent Immanence and Responsive Ethics: A Philosophical Anthropology of the Small Event Chapter 4. Moral Revolutions, Value Change and the Question of Moral Progress Chapter 5. Losing Selves: Moral Injury and the Changing Moral Economies of State-Sanctioned Violence Chapter 6. Dementia Care Ethics, Social Ontology and World-Open Care: Phenomenological Motifs Chapter 7. On Moral Revolutions Chapter 8. Moral Borderlands: Moral Change and Ethical Normativity in Liminal Spaces Chapter 9. Moral Change and Moral Truth Chapter 10. The Problem of Impiety Chapter 11. Guiding Ethical Sentences, Moral Change and Form(s) of Life Chapter 12. Two Historical Periods within One Human Breast Conclusion. Morality in Action Index "The world we live in is constantly changing. Climate change, transforming gender conceptions, emerging issues of food consumption, novel forms of family life and technological developments are altering central areas of our forms of life. This raises questions of how to cope with and understand the moral changes implicit in such alterations. This anthology is the first to address moral change as such. It brings together anthropologists and philosophers to discuss how to study and theorize the change of norms, concepts, emotions, moral frameworks and forms of personhood"--