Lifeworlds: Essays in Existential Anthropology

by Michael D. Jackson

Book Overview

Michael Jackson's Lifeworlds is a masterful collection of essays, the culmination of a career aimed at understanding the relationship between anthropology and philosophy. Seeking the truths that are found in the interstices between examiner and examined, world and word, and body and mind, and taking inspiration from James, Dewey, Arendt, Husserl, Sartre, Camus, and, especially, Merleau-Ponty, Jackson creates in these chapters a distinctive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226923657
• ISBN13: 9780226923659
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"