Re: [xmca] "Creature Consciousness," "Heil Heidegger!," etc.

[Martin Packer <packer@duq.edu>]

This, just published, looks to be of interest to some people here.  
Anyone have access?

Martin



Anthropological Theory 2009;9 235-251
Where thought belongs

An anthropological critique of the project of philosophy

Michael D. Jackson
mjackson@hds.harvard.edu

Adorno, Arendt, Badiou, Derrida, Heidegger and Rorty have variously  
called for radically new conceptions of philosophy, but none has made  
a case for turning from the historical and genealogical past to the  
anthropological present. Taking the view that thought cannot escape  
the impress of a thinker’s immediate situation, this article invokes  
the phenomenological notions of lifeworld and lebensphilosophie to  
explore the social spaces where thought arises and transpires.  
Beginning with Hannah Arendt’s conception of thinking as grounded in  
the vita activa rather than the vita contemplativa, it is suggested  
that ethnographic method provides a compelling way of realizing her  
vision of thought as inextricably political and tied to events —  
expressions of the power relations between human subjects, and between  
private and public realms.

<http://ant.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/9/3/235>



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