Kirby Quantum Anthropologies

Life at Large
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9444-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 184 Seiten

A leading feminist theorist rethinks deconstruction and its relevance to nature, embodiment, materialism, and science.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kirby, Vicki

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: The Question of Supplementarity - A Quantum Problematic vii

Acknowledgments xiii

1. Anthropology Diffracted: Originary Humanicity 1

2. Just Figures?: Forensic Clairvoyance, Mathematics, and the Language Question 22

3. Enumerating Language: "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics" 49

4. Natural Convers(at)ions: Or, What if Culture Was Really Nature All Along? 68

5. (Con)founding "the Human": Rethinking the Incest taboo 89

6. Culpability and the Double-Cross: Irigaray with Merleau-Ponty 111

Notes 137

Works Cited 155

Index 163

Über Autor(innen)

Vicki Kirby is Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of Judith Butler: Live Theory and Telling Flesh: The Substance of the Corporeal.