The Ethical Condition: Essays on Action, Person, and Value

by Michael Lambek

Book Overview

Written over a thirty-year span, Michael Lambek's essays in this collection point with definitive force toward a single central truth: ethics is intrinsic to social life. As he shows through rich ethnographic accounts and multiple theoretical traditions, our human condition is at heart an ethical one--we may not always be good or just, but we are always subject to their criteria. Detailing Lambek's trajectory as one anthropologist thinking deeply...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022629224X
• ISBN13: 9780226292243
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"