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The Ethical Condition

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

The Ethical Condition

By Michael Lambek

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About the book

Written over a thirty-year span, Michael Lambek's essays in this collection point with definitive force toward a single central truth: ethics is intrinsic to social life. As he shows through rich ethnographic accounts and multiple theoretical traditions, our human condition is at heart an ethical one-we may not always be good or just, but we are always subject to their criteria. Detailing Lambek's trajectory as one anthropologist thinking deeply throughout a career on the nature of ethical life,...Show more

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9780226292243

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published year

2015

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1

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The Ethical Condition

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Paperback

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