Reflecting on Reflexivity
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Reflecting on Reflexivity

The Human Condition as an Ontological Surprise

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Reflecting on Reflexivity

The Human Condition as an Ontological Surprise

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Humanness supposes innate and profound reflexivity. This volume approaches the concept of reflexivity on two different yet related analytical planes. Whether implicitly or explicitly, both planes of thought bear critically on reflexivity in relation to the nature of selfhood and the very idea of the autonomous individual, ethics, and humanness, science as such and social science, ontological dualism and fundamental ambiguity. On the one plane, a collection of original and innovative ethnographically based essays is offered, each of which is devoted to ways in which reflexivity plays a fundamental role in human social life and the study of it; on the other—anthropo-philosophical and developed in the volume's Preface, Introduction, and Postscript—it is argued that reflexivity distinguishes—definitively, albeit relatively—the being and becoming of the human.

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academy viii–xi, 50, 52–53, 55–56, 57–58, 90, 95–96, 97–98, 263
activism—see social activism
actor-network theory (ANT) 22, 68, 79, 80–81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 290
actual v. virtual—see virtual v. actual
aesthetics 92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 101, 102, 108–10, 111, 112, 113–14, 115, 122, 191, 196n11, 251, 285, 297
agency 65, 79, 80, 107, 124, 125, 137, 199, 201, 204, 222, 223, 224, 226, 242, 257, 259, 260, 290–91
ambiguity xii, 8, 9, 12, 15, 16, 17, 34, 82, 94, 95, 101–2, 110, 114, 116, 143, 179, 180, 238, 248, 266, 273–76, 281, 292, 294, 295, 297, 298n4
androgyny and eroticism 10, 11
annihilation 156, 157, 160, 179, 180, 193, 232
ANT—see actor-network theory (ANT)
anthropology vii, ix, xi–xii, xiii, 1, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 38, 46, 47, 48–49, 50, 52, 56, 58, 58n2, 59n6, 63, 64, 65, 67, 68, 69, 70, 74, 82, 83, 85, 87, 95, 103, 114, 123, 128, 136, 137, 138, 139, 174, 175, 182, 184, 186–87, 19...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction Reflexivity and Selfhood
  7. Section I. Reflexivity, Social Science, and Ethics
  8. Section II. Reflexivity, Practice, and Embodiment
  9. Section III. Reflexivity, Self, and Other
  10. Section IV. Reflexivity, Democracy, and Government
  11. Postscript
  12. Index