Comparative Metaphysics: Ontology After Anthropology (reinventing Critical Theory)
by Pierre Charbonnier /
2016 / English / PDF
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How does the ontological turn in anthropology redefine
what modern, Western ontology is in practice, and offer the
beginnings of a new ontological pluralism?
How does the ontological turn in anthropology redefine
what modern, Western ontology is in practice, and offer the
beginnings of a new ontological pluralism?On a planet that is increasingly becoming a single,
metaphysically homogeneous world, anthropology remains one of the
few disciplines that recognizes that being has been thought with
very different concepts and can still be rendered in terms quite
different than those placed on it today. Yet despite its critical
acuity, even the most philosophically oriented anthropology often
remains segregated from philosophical discussions aimed at
rethinking such terms. What would come of an anthropology more
fully committed to being a source of (post-) philosophical
concepts? What would happen to philosophy if it began to think with
and through these concepts? How, finally, does comparison condition
these two projects ? This book addresses these questions from a
variety of perspectives, all of which nonetheless hold in common
the view that “philosophy” has been displaced and altered by the
modes of thought of other collectives. An international group of
authors, including Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Marilyn Strathern,
Philippe Descola, and Bruno Latour, explore how the new
anthropology/philosophy conjuncture opens new horizons of
critique.
On a planet that is increasingly becoming a single,
metaphysically homogeneous world, anthropology remains one of the
few disciplines that recognizes that being has been thought with
very different concepts and can still be rendered in terms quite
different than those placed on it today. Yet despite its critical
acuity, even the most philosophically oriented anthropology often
remains segregated from philosophical discussions aimed at
rethinking such terms. What would come of an anthropology more
fully committed to being a source of (post-) philosophical
concepts? What would happen to philosophy if it began to think with
and through these concepts? How, finally, does comparison condition
these two projects ? This book addresses these questions from a
variety of perspectives, all of which nonetheless hold in common
the view that “philosophy” has been displaced and altered by the
modes of thought of other collectives. An international group of
authors, including Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Marilyn Strathern,
Philippe Descola, and Bruno Latour, explore how the new
anthropology/philosophy conjuncture opens new horizons of
critique.