Philosophy and Anthropology: Border Crossing and Transformations (Key Issues in Modern Sociology)

Philosophy and anthropology have many, but largely unexplored, links and interrelationships. Historically, they have informed each other in subtle ways. This volume of original essays explores and enhances this relationship through anthropological engagement with philosophy and vice versa, the nature, sources and history of philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, and the practical, methodological and theoretical implications of a dialogue between the two subjects. ‘Philosophy and Anthropology: Border Crossings and Transformations’ seeks to enrich both the humanities and the social sciences through its informative and stimulating essays. Introduction Philosophy And Anthropology In Dialogues And Conversations / John Clammer And Ananta Kumar Giri -- Nurturing The Field: Towards Mutual Fecundation And Transformation Of Philosophy And Anthropology -- The Project Of Philosophical Anthropology / John Clammer -- The Self-preservation Of Man: Remarks On The Relation Between Modernity And Philosophical Anthropology / Kasper Lysemose -- Whither Modernity? Hybridization, Postoccidentalism, Postdevelopment And Transmodernity / Ivan Marquez -- Philosophical Anthropology And Philosophy In Anthropology / Vaclav Brezina -- The Engagement Of Philosophy And Anthropology In The Interpretive Turn And Beyond: Towards An Anthropology Of The Contemporary / Heike Kämpf -- Mediation Through Cognitive Dynamics: Philosophical Anthropology And The Conflicts Of Our Time / Piet Strydom -- Philosophy As Anthropocentrism: Language, Life And Aporia / Prasenjit Biswas -- Sources Of Philosophical Anthropology --^ Kant And Anthropology / Ananta Kumar Giri -- Dilthey's Theory Of Knowledge And Its Potential For Anthropological Theory / Daniel Šuber -- Malinowski And Philosophy / Peter Skalník -- Ground, Self, Sign: The Semiotic Theories Of Charles Sanders Peirce And Their Applications In Social Anthropology / Lars Kjaerholm -- Ricoeur's Challenge For A Twenty-first Century Anthropology / Betsy Taylor -- Clifford Geertz: The Philosophical Transformation Of Anthropology / Gernot Saalmann -- Bakhtin's Heritage In Anthropology: Alterity And Dialogue / Marcin Brocki -- The Philosophy Of Slavoj ¿i¿ek And Anthropology: The Current Situation And Possible Futures / Lars Kjaerholm -- Border Crossings Between Anthropology And Buddhist Philosophy / Susantha Goonatilake -- Philosophical Anthropology At Work -- Anthropology Of Philosophy In Africa: The Ethnography Of Critical Discourse And Intellectual Practice / Kai Kresse -- Albinos Do Not Die: Belief, Philosophy And Anthropology / João De Pina-cabral --^ Anthropology, Development And The Myth Of Culture / Robert Feleppa -- Notions Of Friendship In Philosophical And Anthropological Thought -- Heidrun Friese -- Afterword The Return Of Philosophical Anthropology / Fred Dallmayr. Edited By Ananta Kumar Giri And John Clammer. Includes Bibliographical References. Anthropology and philosophy have long been intellectual companions; the borders between the two disciplines have always been permeable. For example, anthropologies inspired by Durkheim are ultimately indebted to Kant; Evans-Pritchard's ideas are stamped with R. G. Collingwood's Hegelian philosophy; Gluckman was stimulated by Whitehead's process philosophy; and Bourdieu drew inspiration from Wittgenstein and Pascal, amongst others. Yet the fuller history and implications of philosophical influences in anthropology are largely unaddressed. In this volume, the contributors address the shifting effect philosophy has on anthropology. They investigate the impact of the philosophical presuppositions of anthropology, as well as the presuppositions themselves, using a comparative-cultural point of view – ethnography. Furthermore, by considering anthropologies in conjunction with philosophies, and philosophies with anthropologies, the volume helps illuminate the present trajectories of thought in postcolonialist, non-ethnocentric and creative directions that were previously ignored by the contemporary social sciences. As a cross-disciplinary study, the volume questions both the rigidity of intellectual and disciplinary boundaries and attempts to evade it by encouraging many different voices and perspectives to create a thought-provoking dialogue. The original essays in ‘Philosophy and Anthropology: Border Crossings and Transformations'discuss the three-fold division within the anthropological engagement with philosophy, the sources and history of philosophical anthropology, and its current applications and links with other contemporary intellectual movements. This volume seeks to engage with real social and humanitarian issues of the current age and create an innovative discipline: philosophical anthropology. 'Philosophy and Anthropology: Border Crossings and Transformations' is an innovative and original collection of essays exploring the relationships between philosophy and anthropology - historically and presently - and the theoretical and practical issues concerning their dialogue