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Format: 1 online resource (263 pages)

ISBN: 9781487517250 (e-book)

Note: Includes index.

Additional Edition: Print version: Capturing the ineffable : an anthropology of wisdom. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, c2020 ISBN 9781487503130

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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Format: viii, 254 Seiten : , Illustrationen, Diagramm.

ISBN: 978-1-4875-0313-0

Content: "Wisdom is peculiarly abstract, ineffable, and yet perennial. It is also temporal, stretching forwards as well is backwards in time. Wisdom is often treated as the outcome of life experience, reflection, discipline, and equanimity. Capturing the Ineffable aims to establish wisdom as an area if inquiry within anthropology and an analytic account of wisdom and its role and focus in anthropology. In addition to developing theories for an anthropology (and excavation) of wisdom, this volume argues collectively that anthropology is especially well suited to engage in questioning what it is that is called wisdom, and how wisdom, as a concept, and an enacted activity, functions in metaphysical and interpersonal experiences, values, and judgements. The contributors include many key US and UK thinkers."--

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, EPUB Capturing the ineffable Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2020 ISBN 1487517262

Additional Edition: ISBN 978-1-4875-1726-7

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, PDF ISBN 978-1-4875-1725-0

Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology

Keywords: Weisheit ; Anthropologie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

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URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: 1 online resource (264 p.) : , 2 figures

ISBN: 9781487517250

Content: Grounded in ethnographic case studies that examine experiences from which wisdom emerges, Capturing the Ineffable provides a rigorous analysis of the sociocultural context of wisdom in the contemporary world. Each chapter in the volume deals with different aspects and showcases how communities in different contexts — nursing homes, religious organizations, corporations, and monastic institutions, for example — engage with the ineffability of wisdom. Contributors draw from a range of disciplines and cross-cultural and historical data in order to interpret the meaning and value of wisdom as a human endeavour. This book also represents an anthropological method for evaluating various philosophical and scientific approaches to understanding wisdom, including how wisdom is learned and taught. Readers will be able to appreciate how action, emotion, uncertainty, and cultural systems come to bear on wisdom as a value in human life and expression. In the end, Capturing the Ineffable reveals how the conception and paradoxical nature of wisdom dispels the dichotomies of self/other, structure/agency, known/unknown, nature/culture, and the like. What is at stake is a recasting of wisdom as a particular kind of anthropological endeavour and, thus, a return to and modification of philosophical anthropology.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction: Towards an Anthropology of Wisdom -- , 1. Revelations of Delusion: Becoming Isomorphic to the Urgrund with Philip K. Dick -- , 2. The Social Life of the Inexpressible: English Benedictine Mysticism, the Ineffable, and the Sublime -- , 3. How Wisdom Is Discovered: Discretion and Emotional Insights in Naikan Meditation in Japan -- , 4. Navigating Wisdom and Time: Reflections on Aging and Eldercare -- , 5. Yoga and Wisdom: Reflections on the Body at the Intersection of Epistemology and Ontology -- , 6. Social Construction of Wisdom in Institutions -- , 7. Of Uncertainty, Sophiology, and Governance: Zen and the Art of Scenario Planning -- , 8. Grappling with the Ineffable in Three African Situations: An Ethnographic Approach -- , Contributors -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.3138/9781487517250

URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487517250

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487517250