Anthropology & philosophy : dialogues on trust and hope / edited by Sune Liisberg, Esther Oluffa Pedersen, and Anne Line Dalsg̊ard.

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Trust and hope : an introduction / Esther Oluffa Pedersen and Sune Liisberg -- Practical philosophy and hope as a moral project among African-Americans / Cheryl Mattingly & Uffe Juul Jensen -- What can we hope for? : an exploration in cosmopolitan philosophical anthropology / Cheryl Mattingly and Uffe Juul Jensen -- Existential anthropology and the category of the new / Michael D. Jackson & Thomas Schwarz Wentzer -- The reopening of the gate of effort : existential imperatives at the margins of a globalized world / Michael D. Jackson -- The eternal recurrence of the new / Thomas Schwarz Wentzer -- Intentional trust in Uganda / Esther Oluffa Pedersen & Lotte Meinert -- An outline of interpersonal trust and distrust / Esther Oluffa Pedersen -- Tricky trust : distrust as a point of departure and trust as a social achievement in Uganda / Lotte Meinert -- Trust, ambiguity, and Indonesian modernity / Sune Liisberg & Nils Bubandt -- Trust in an age of inauthenticity : power and Indonesian modernity / Nils Bubandt -- Trust as the life magic of self-deception : a philosophical-psychological investigation into tolerance of ambiguity / Sune Liisberg -- Gift-giving and power between trust and hope / Sverre Raffnsøe & Hirokazu Miyazaki -- Empowering trust in the new : trust and power as capacities / Sverre Raffnsøe -- Hope in the gift; hope in sleep / Hirokazu Miyazaki -- With Kierkegaard in Africa / Anders Moe Rasmussen & Hans Lucht -- Self, hope, and the unconditional : Kierkegaard on faith and hope / Anders Moe Rasmussen -- Kierkegaard in West Africa : hope and sacrifice in a Ghanaian fishing village / Hans Lucht -- Anthropology and philosophy in dialogue? / Anne Line Dalsgard and Soren Harnow Klausen.

The present book is no ordinary anthology, but rather a workroom in which anthropologists and philosophers initiate a dialogue on trust and hope, two important topics for both fields of study. The book combines work between scholars from different universities in the U.S. and Denmark. Thus, besides bringing the two disciplines in dialogue, it also cuts across differences in national contexts and academic style. The interdisciplinary efforts of the contributors demonstrate how such a collaboration can result in new and challenging ways of thinking about trust and hope. Reading the dialogues ma.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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