Moral Engines (eBook)

Rasmus Dyring is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas, Aarhus University. In dialogue with the anthropology of ethics, Dyring’s research aims at foregrounding the existential dimensions of ethical life. He has published several articles on this subject, for instance, “A Spectacle of Disappearance” (Tropos 2015).

Thomas Schwarz Wentzer is Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas, Aarhus University. He is author of Bewahrung der Geschichte: Die hermeneutische Philosophie Walter Benjamins (Philo-Verlag 2002), co-editor of Finite but Unbounded: New Approaches in Philosophical Anthropology (DeGruyter 2017).

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).

Maria Louw is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University. She is the author of Everyday Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia (Routledge 2007) and a number of other publications focusing on religion, secularism, atheism and morality in Central Asia.

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