... important metatheoretical questions for social inquiry of the sort that anthropologists and historians do: the question of the ethics of encounter, which is also the question of the ethics of interpretation. The Doctor and Mrs. A. grows out of just a few pages of an obscure book by a crankily creative...

... of “multiplicity in unity” (38). In the strongest section of the study (which occurs in the second chapter), El Shakry masterfully reads psychoanalysis as a mode of reception comparable to Sufism, its knowledge not merely hermeneutic but intuitive and affective, “an ethical encounter with the Other mediated...

...Youssef Belal This article is devoted to the study of questions of knowledge, law, and ethics in Islamic context. Starting with a discussion of assumptions about Islamic ethical practices in recent anthropological and historical works on the fatwa, it explores procedures of truth seeking and modes...

...Carrol Clarkson J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event Derek Attridge Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Scottsville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2005 xv + 225 pp., $47.50 (cloth), $19.00 (paper) Duke University Press 2007...

...Naisargi N. Dave Abstract In this article, Naisargi N. Dave examines the relationship between animals and love in India, animals and love in multispecies anthropology, and between ethics and love more generally. She argues that ahimsa (nonviolence) and love share the characteristic of abnegating...

... imagination of the democratic communitarian order. The marchers' injured feet mobilized desires to reciprocate through collective ethical practices of waiting, greeting, giving, and protecting enacted by communities en route to San'a. The article suggests that through these enactments, communities sought...

... that such humility is probably even rarer among nonreligious analytic ethicists than it is among religious ethicists. Duke University Press 2011 Secularism, Ethics, Philosophy: A Case for Epistemic Humility Susan...

...Arash Davari This essay considers the overlap between ʿAli Shari’ati’s ethical reflections and his discussion of insurrectionary violence. Davari argues that the earlier lectures discussing bāzgasht be khishtan (a return to self) formed the conceptual foundation for his advocacy of shahādat...

...: The Ethics of Embodied Life The editors of CSSAAME envision Kitabkhana (lit. repository of books) as a space for scholarly discussion about books whose critical perspectives reshape our understanding of the regions under the journal’s purview...

...Sanil V. As a response to Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai’s book The Cracked Mirror, Sanil’s essay explores the relation between ethics and the social sciences. The essay engages the work of Kant, Aristotle, Martin Heidegger, and Michel Foucault, among others, to make its argument. The Cracked...

... a site of embodied philosophical engagement with questions regarding the bounds of self and community and our ethics toward others. We turn to these rich traditions, both textual and embodied, to confound and erase the sharp boundaries between the human, the animal, and the environment that have been...

... of openness: an opening that points beyond the exclusivity of communitarianism and the ego-centered limitations of religion. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 animals medieval ethics comparative religion philosophy language References Asif Manan Ahmed . “A Demon with Ruby Eyes...

..., cruelties and forms of indifference expressed by our ethnographic interlocutors while witnessing or executing the death of animals. Rather than indicting such acts and emotions, we emphasize a different question within the anthropology of ethics. Instead of asking (only) how one ought to live, we suggest...

...Gregory A. Barton Historians have tangled with two difficult conceptualizations of Hinduism. One is the use of the term Hinduism , and the other, the relation between environmental ethics and Hinduism. One posits a “merry India” that is diverse, tolerant, and amorphous, impossible to pin down...

..., the central purpose of which was to present reality in an ethically acceptable manner. 13 Informing both the historiography and the formal-ideological analysis of the genre by Ottoman intellectuals, this emergent aesthetics was articulated in terms of conceptual separations. This article focuses...

... challenges nationalist theories of estrangement based on the assumption that a sense of displacement is bound to physical movement out of the national territory. Ghorba is a state in which the subject is far from his or her ethical and spiritual plenitude (thanks to the Sufi mystical unity with the divine...

... and ethical imaginary of the anticolonial era. Malcolm X and Jalal Al-e Ahmad were both political thinkers whose lives were marked by restless intellectual and political exploration. Though both men had worldly concerns, they are each more generally read from within the provincial national concerns found...

...Roanne L. Kantor Kantor's article examines the way that two distinct communities—rural villagers and the writers who represent them in fiction—marshal filth as an ethical term in the discussion of the same problem: dysfunction and socioeconomic stagnation in rural South Asia. Shrilal Shukla's Raag...

..., lovingly described. Journalism is its closest analogue. Éden, Éden, Éden affects the nerves directly with the brutality of fact. If it is an ethical work, it offers an ethics of atrocity. Catastrophe is the subject of the book, and it is the fate of those subject to it. Duke University Press 2008...

... between forms of life and modes of thought. The “thought” under consideration is distinctive for its commitment to remaking political and ethical life, and attention to the fugitive or unruly forms by which insurgent thought is transmitted, e.g., through poetry, fiction, and autobiography in addition...