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Maguire, Mark (2015) Limits in Wittgenstein and in Anthropology: comment on Nigel Rapport's 'Anthropology through Levinas: Knowing the Uniqueness of Ego and the Mystery of Otherness'. Current Anthropology, 56. pp. 268-269. ISSN 0011-3204
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Abstract
Nigel Rapport must be congratulated for this sophisticated essay on the nature of the pre- or nontextual sphere of human life. He challenges a long intellectual arc in which the symbolic and language-based dimensions of collective life have been foregrounded and treated as determining at the expense of self-conscious, reflexive persons. He does not, however, erect a straw anthropological man fashioned out of discursive determinism; rather, it is a version of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy that he attacks. And his theoretical concerns fold into questions about writing: he uses Stirner and Levinas contra Wittgenstein to attend to a richness and beauty in human life that have often been left unattended.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Wittgenstein; Anthropology; Levinas; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Anthropology |
| Item ID: | 8353 |
| Depositing User: | Mark Maguire |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jun 2017 14:22 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Current Anthropology |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
| Refereed: | Yes |
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| URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/8353 |
| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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