Anthropology and Philosophy

Dialogues on Trust and Hope
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-752-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 441 g

Reihe: Anthropology & ...

The present book is no ordinary anthology, but rather a workroom in which anthropologists and philosophers initiate a dialogue on trust and hope, two important topics for both fields of study. The book combines work between scholars from different universities in the U.S. and Denmark. Thus, besides bringing the two disciplines in dialogue, it also cuts across differences in national contexts and academic style. The interdisciplinary efforts of the contributors demonstrate how such a collaboration can result in new and challenging ways of thinking about trust and hope. Reading the dialogues may, therefore, also inspire others to work in the productive intersection between anthropology and philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Liisberg, Sune

Pedersen, Esther Oluffa

Dalsgård, Anne Line

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Trust and Hope: An Introduction

Esther Oluffa Pedersen & Sune Liisberg

Dialogue I: Practical Philosophy and Hope as a Moral Project among African-Americans

Cheryl Mattingly & Uffe Juul Jensen

Joint Statement

What Can We Hope For? An Exploration in Cosmopolitan Philosophical Anthropology

Cheryl Mattingly & Uffe Juul Jensen

Dialogue II: Existential Anthropology and the Category of the New

Michael D. Jackson & Thomas Schwarz Wentzer

Joint Statement

The Reopening of the Gate of Effort: Existential Imperatives at the Margins of a Globalized World

Michael D. Jackson

The Eternal Recurrence of the New

Thomas Schwarz Wentzer

Joint Afterword

Dialogue III: Intentional Trust in Uganda

Esther Oluffa Pedersen & Lotte Meinert

Joint Statement

An Outline of Interpersonal Trust and Distrust

Esther Oluffa Pedersen

Tricky Trust: Distrust as a Point of Departure and Trust as a Social Achievement in Uganda

Lotte Meinert

Dialogue IV: Trust, Ambiguity, and Indonesian Modernity

Sune Liisberg & Nils Bubandt

Joint Statement

Trust in an Age of Inauthenticity: Power and Indonesian Modernity

Nils Bubandt

Trust as the Life Magic of Self-Deception: A Philosophical-Psychological Investigation into Tolerance of Ambiguity

Sune Liisberg

Dialogue V: Gift-Giving and Power between Trust and Hope

Sverre Raffnsøe & Hirokazu Miyazaki

Joint Statement

Empowering Trust in the New: Trust and Power as Capacities

Sverre Raffnsøe

Hope in the Gift—Hope in Sleep

Hirokazu Miyazaki

Dialogue VI: With Kierkegaard in Africa

Anders Moe Rasmussen & Hans Lucht

Joint Statement

Self, Hope, and the Unconditional: Kierkegaard on Faith and Hope

Anders Moe Rasmussen

Kierkegaard in West Africa: Hope and Sacrifice in a Ghanaian Fishing Village

Hans Lucht

Epilogue: Anthropology and Philosophy in Dialogue?

Anne Line Dalsgård & Søren Harnow Klausen

Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Dalsgård, Anne Line
Anne Line Dalsgård is Associate Professor at Aarhus University. Based on periodic fieldwork in Northeast Brazil since 1997, she has published extensively on motherhood, youth, violence, affect and temporality. She is author of the book Matters of Life and Longing: Female Sterilisation in Northeast Brazil (Museum Tusculanum Press, 2004; Editora UNESP, 2006).

Liisberg, Sune
Sune Liisberg is an External Lecturer of philosophy of psychology and intercultural communication at Aarhus University. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy and the history of ideas in Aarhus in 2008, and has since published on a variety of topics primarily within the fields of existential philosophy and phenomenology.

Pedersen, Esther Oluffa
Esther Oluffa Pedersen is Associate Professor of philosophy at the University of Roskilde. She has published several articles on trust, most recently “A Kantian Conception of Trust” in Sats. Northern European Journal of Philosophy (2013), and more broadly within the history of philosophy and philosophical anthropology, including the book Die Mythosphilosophie Ernst Cassirers (Königshausen & Neumann, 2009).

Sune Liisberg is an External Lecturer of philosophy of psychology and intercultural communication at Aarhus University. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy and the history of ideas in Aarhus in 2008, and has since published on a variety of topics primarily within the fields of existential philosophy and phenomenology.