Moral Engines

Cheryl Mattingly is Professor of Anthropology at University of Southern California. She is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow and has received numerous awards from the American Anthropological Association, including the Victor Turner Prize, the Stirling Prize and the New Millennium Prize. Her most recent book is Moral Laboratories: Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life (University of California Press 2014).

Prologue

Cheryl Mattingly



Chapter 1. The Question of 'Moral Engines': Introducing a Philosophical Anthropological Dialogue

Rasmus Dyring, Cheryl Mattingly, and Maria Louw



PART I: MORAL ENGINES AND HUMAN EXPERIENCE



Chapter 2. Ethics, Immanent Transcendence and the Experimental Narrative Self  

Cheryl Mattingly



Chapter 3. Being Otherwise: On Regret, Morality, and Mood

Jason Throop



Chapter 4. Haunting as Moral Engine: Ethical Striving and Moral Aporias among Sufis in Uzbekistan

Maria Louw



Chapter 5. Every Day: Forgiving after War in Northern Uganda

Lotte Meinert



Chapter 6. The Provocation of Freedom

Rasmus Dyring



PART II: MORAL ENGINES AND 'MORAL FACTS'



Chapter 7. On the Immanence of Ethics

Michael Lambek



Chapter 8. Where in the World are Values? Exemplarity and Moral Motivation

Joel Robbins



Chapter 9. Fault Lines in the Anthropology of Ethics

James Laidlaw



PART III: MORAL ENGINES AND THE HUMAN CONDITION



Chapter 10. An Ethics of Dwelling and a Politics of Worldbuilding: Responding to the Demands of the Drug War

Jarrett Zigon



Chapter 11. Human, the Responding Being:  Considerations Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Responsiveness

Thomas Schwarz Wentzer



Chapter 12. The History of Responsibility

Francois Raffoul



Index