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This is a comprehensive study of the varying conceptions of the human subject in the Western intellectual tradition. Although informed by an anthropological perspective, the author draws on material from all the major intellectual disciplines that have contributed to this tradition and offers biographical and theoretical vignettes of all the major Western scholars. By scrutinizing the classical texts of the Western tradition, he succeeds in delineating the differing conceptions of the human individual which emerge from these writings, and gives a guide to the most important ideas in Western cultural traditions.
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Charles Walters
reviewed Western conceptions of the individual on March 22, 2011
Western conceptions of the individual
Not as dense and academic as other are saying imo, though probably at least an introductory level of anthropology & its history is needed before going in. Graeber presents diverse and fascinating views on value, exploring the histories of formalism vs substantivism and other debates around anthropology (especially concerning value, economic anthro and exchange), while maintaining a normative framework to imagine a better world and how examining and changing these value systems in question can do just that. Mind you he does introduce certain technical anthropological terms, but these are explained adequately. His writing flows like conversation, which is a great relief to an easily distracted reader :) bonus: his injection of critical realist philosophy is a fantastic rebuttal to some of postmodernisms' uglier, idealist outgrowths. If only the peddler's of the ontological turn had done the same...
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