{"product_id":"living-with-concepts-anthropology-in-the-grip-of-reality-paperback","title":"Living with Concepts: Anthropology in the Grip of Reality - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrew Brandel\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMarco Motta\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJocelyn Benoist\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume examines an often taken for granted concept--that of the concept itself. How do we picture what concepts are, what they do, how they arise in the course of everyday life? Challenging conventional approaches that treat concepts as mere tools at our disposal for analysis, or as straightforwardly equivalent to signs to be deciphered, the anthropologists and philosophers in this volume turn instead to the ways concepts are already intrinsically embedded in our forms of life and how they constitute the very substrate of our existence as humans who lead lives in language. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAttending to our ordinary lives with concepts requires not an ascent from the rough ground of reality into the skies of theory, but rather acceptance of the fact that thinking is congenital to living with and through concepts. The volume offers a critical and timely intervention into both contemporary philosophy and anthropological theory by unsettling the distinction between thought and reality that continues to be too often assumed and showing how the supposed need to \u003ci\u003egrasp \u003c\/i\u003ereality may be replaced by an acknowledgement that we are in its grip. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e: Jocelyn Benoist, Andrew Brandel, Michael Cordey, Veena Das, Rasmus Dyring and Thomas Schwarz Wentzer, Michael D. Jackson, Michael Lambek, Sandra Laugier, Marco Motta, Michael J. Puett, and Lotte Buch Segal\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A remarkable collection with genuine interdisciplinary reach, \u003ci\u003eLiving with Concepts\u003c\/i\u003e opens up a critical dialogue between philosophers and anthropologists about the various paths that thinking can take when concepts are rethought as intrinsic to forms of life.\"--Jason Throop, UCLA \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLiving with Concepts\u003c\/i\u003e moves between anthropology and philosophy in fresh and fruitful ways that powerfully bring out the moral and political urgency of understanding what is involved in trafficking in concepts. The contributors are united in questioning the legitimacy of assumptions so widespread they might be described as belonging to the zeitgeist.\"--Alice Crary, New School for Social Research \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume examines an often taken for granted concept--that of the concept itself. How do we picture what concepts are, what they do, how they arise in the course of everyday life? Challenging conventional approaches that treat concepts as mere tools at our disposal for analysis, or as straightforwardly equivalent to signs to be deciphered, the anthropologists and philosophers in this volume turn instead to the ways concepts are already intrinsically embedded in our forms of life and how they constitute the very substrate of our existence as humans who lead lives in language. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAttending to our ordinary lives with concepts requires not an ascent from the rough ground of reality into the skies of theory, but rather acceptance of the fact that thinking is congenital to living with and through concepts. The volume offers a critical and timely intervention into both contemporary philosophy and anthropological theory by unsettling the distinction between thought and reality that continues to be too often assumed and showing how the supposed need to \u003ci\u003egrasp \u003c\/i\u003ereality may be replaced by an acknowledgement that we are in its grip. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e: Jocelyn Benoist, Andrew Brandel, Michael Cordey, Veena Das, Rasmus Dyring and Thomas Schwarz Wentzer, Michael D. Jackson, Michael Lambek, Sandra Laugier, Marco Motta, Michael J. Puett, and Lotte Buch Segal \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Brandel\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarco Motta\u003c\/b\u003e is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Bern.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Brandel (Edited By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAndrew Brandel\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard University. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarco Motta (Edited By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMarco Motta\u003c\/b\u003e is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Bern. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.78 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 15, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42717800792160,"sku":"9780823294275","price":87.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/liQdAJ0VCr9780823294275.webp?v=1776804919","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/living-with-concepts-anthropology-in-the-grip-of-reality-paperback","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}