Scott Stuart Hall's Voice

Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7302-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten

In these series of letters—which David Scott wrote to Stuart Hall following his death—Scott characterizes Hall's voice and his practice of speaking, listening, and generosity as the foundational elements of Hall's intellectual work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scott, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Apology: On Intellectual Friendship 1
1. A Listening Self: Voice and the Ethos of Style 23
2. Responsiveness to the Present: Thinking through Contingency 53
3. Attunement to Identity: What We Make of What We Find 85
4. Learning to Learn from Others: An Ethics of Receptive Generosity 115
Adieu: Walk Good 143
Acknowledgments 147
Notes 149
Index 179

Über Autor(innen)

David Scott is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of a number of books, including Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice and Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment, and is the editor of Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, all also published by Duke University Press.