6. Habermas’s Anti-dualism and “Communicative Rationality”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Organization and Key Usages xix
6. Introduction: Nondualism, Ontology, and Anthropology 1
7. Part I. The Ethnographic Self
8. 1. Anthropology and the Synthetic a Priori 15
9. 2. Blind Faith and the Binding of Isaac—the Akedah 47
10. 3. Excursus I 76
11. 4. Counter-Sacrifice and Instrumental Reason—the Holocaust 83
12. 5. Bourdieu’s Anti-dualism and “Generalized Materialism” 107
13. 6. Habermas’s Anti-dualism and “Communicative Rationality” 131
14. Part II. The Ethnographic Other
15. 7. Technological Efficacy, Mythic Rationality, and Non-contradiction 153
16. 8. Epistemic Efficacy, Mythic Rationality, and Non-contradiction 162
17. 9. Contradiction and Choice among the Dinka and in Genesis 176
18. 10. Contradiction in Azande Oracular Practice and in Psychotherapeutic Interaction 197
19. Part III. From Mythic to Value-Rationality
20. 11. Epistemic and Ethical Gain 215
21. 12. Transcending Dualism and Amplifying Choice 241
22. 13. Excursus II 256
23. 14. Anthropology and the Generative Primacy of Moral Order 273
24. Conclusion: Emancipatory Selfhood and Value-Rationality 294
25. Notes 301
26. References 364
27. Index 376