Introduction: Toward a Critical Moral Anthropology

A Companion to Moral Anthropology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-17

  Fassin, Didier ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES   (France)

Author keywords

"human species" as a whole through moral progress; "moral anthropology," trilogy of paradigms, Durkheimian, Foucauldian; Anthropologists objective, the moral making of the world; Deployment questions and ethical turn, a politics of morality; Human activities grounded on moral assumptions; Moral norms and values governing collective individual behavior; New questions on human life, new possibilities of answering them; Toward a critical moral anthropology, and Kantian genealogy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872293830     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118290620.ch     Document Type: Editorial

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