TY - JOUR
T1 - Notes on generative anthropology : towards an ethics of the hypothesis
AU - Fleming, Chris
AU - O'Carroll, John
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Scholars in the human sciences (the arts, liberal thought, and the verstehen varieties of social sciences) are often called upon to supply new modes of thinking to meet the challenges of a post-Marxist, post-modern, even post-humanist world. A new cartography of methodological expectations and possibilities within the purview of these human sciences would now appear desirable. Never has the world of thought-about-thought been required to perform so much, and only rarely, regrettably, has it offered so little. An interesting exception to this is formed by a small group of thinkers inspired by the writing of René Girard and, among these, especially the author of Signs of Paradox, Eric Gans. This essay is not simply about Gans's specific hypothesis, but about a new version of the hypothesis per se. What follows is gathered by our attempt to explain its nature and to indicate its ethico-political place.
AB - Scholars in the human sciences (the arts, liberal thought, and the verstehen varieties of social sciences) are often called upon to supply new modes of thinking to meet the challenges of a post-Marxist, post-modern, even post-humanist world. A new cartography of methodological expectations and possibilities within the purview of these human sciences would now appear desirable. Never has the world of thought-about-thought been required to perform so much, and only rarely, regrettably, has it offered so little. An interesting exception to this is formed by a small group of thinkers inspired by the writing of René Girard and, among these, especially the author of Signs of Paradox, Eric Gans. This essay is not simply about Gans's specific hypothesis, but about a new version of the hypothesis per se. What follows is gathered by our attempt to explain its nature and to indicate its ethico-political place.
KW - Anthropology
KW - Language and languages
KW - Philosophical anthropology
KW - Philosophy
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/10084
UR - http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap0802/fleming.htm
M3 - Article
SN - 1083-7264
JO - Anthropoetics : the journal of generative anthropology
JF - Anthropoetics : the journal of generative anthropology
ER -