Reflecting on Reflexivity (Paperback)

Don Handelman

ISBN 10: 178920092X / ISBN 13: 9781789200928

Published by Berghahn Books, Oxford, 2018

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Paperback. Humanness supposes innate and profound reflexivity. This volume approaches the concept of reflexivity on two different yet related analytical planes. Whether implicitly or explicitly, both planes of thought bear critically on reflexivity in relation to the nature of selfhood and the very idea of the autonomous individual, ethics, and humanness, science as such and social science, ontological dualism and fundamental ambiguity. On the one plane, a collection of original and innovative ethnographically based essays is offered, each of which is devoted to ways in which reflexivity plays a fundamental role in human social life and the study of it; on the otheranthropo-philosophical and developed in the volumes Preface, Introduction, and Postscriptit is argued that reflexivity distinguishesdefinitively, albeit relativelythe being and becoming of the human. This volume analyzes reflexivity on two analytical planes. On one is the role reflexivity plays in human life and the study of it. The other plane is anthropo-philosophical, which maintains that reflexivity definitively distinguishes the being and becoming of the human. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reflecting on Reflexivity (Paperback)
• Publisher: Berghahn Books, Oxford
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178920092X
• ISBN 13: 9781789200928
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Humanness supposes innate and profound reflexivity. This volume approaches the concept of reflexivity on two different yet related analytical planes. Whether implicitly or explicitly, both planes of thought bear critically on reflexivity in relation to the nature of selfhood and the very idea of the autonomous individual, ethics, and humanness, science as such and social science, ontological dualism and fundamental ambiguity. On the one plane, a collection of original and innovative ethnographically based essays is offered, each of which is devoted to ways in which reflexivity plays a fundamental role in human social life and the study of it; on the other―anthropo-philosophical and developed in the volume’s Preface, Introduction, and Postscript―it is argued that reflexivity distinguishes―definitively, albeit relatively―the being and becoming of the human.

About the Authors

T. M. S. (Terry) Evens is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Don Handelman is Sarah Allen Shaine Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the Hebrew University and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Christopher Roberts is Professor of Humanities and Religion at Lewis and Clark College.