Emmanuel Levinas's philosophical work on 'the Other' offers a challenge to the discipline of anthropology that claims knowledge of the human. For Levinas, the 'secrecy' of subjectivity - a fundamental facet of the human condition - demands an ethics of ignorance and not-knowing; the mystery of otherness is only to be approached through 'inspiration'. Can anthropology meet a Levinasian challenge if it would define itself as a science as well as a humanistic documentation of social life? This book endeavours to take Levinasian and anthropological precepts equally seriously and offers a radical conclusion.
| ISBN: | 9781805394709 |
| Publication date: | 1st April 2024 |
| Author: | Nigel Rapport |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 208 pages |
| Series: | Methodology and History in Anthropology |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural anthropology Humanist philosophy Social and political philosophy |