Epistemology, economics, and ethics : A practical philosophy of prehistoric archaeology

1. Verfasser: Ott, Konrad, 1959- , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2024.
Ausgabe: 1st ed.
Umfang/Format: 255 pages ; 28 cm
Schriftenreihe: Roots studies
Parallelausgabe: Epistemology, Economics, and Ethics. A Practical Philosophy of Prehistoric Archaeology (Online version) | ISSN: 9789464270839
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Intro
  • Preface of the series editors
  • Preface of the author
  • Introduction: What the book is all about
  • Part 1: Epistemology: Scaffolding on a ladder
  • 1.1 Ethics, reflection, and transcendental pragmatics
  • 1.2 History and archaeology
  • 1.3 Basic suppositions and distinctions
  • 1.4 The universal, the particular, and the individual
  • 1.5 The concept of transformation
  • 1.6 A brief history of theory formation in prehistoric archaeology (PA)
  • 1.7 Understanding, explaining, and the role of reasons
  • 1.8 The practical interest in history
  • 1.9 Antinomies and resolutions
  • 1.10 Theoretical investments
  • 1.11 Scaffolding on a ladder, stepwise
  • 1.11.1 Basic anthropology
  • 1.11.2 Constitution of empirical research and data mining
  • 1.11.3 Set of classificatory concepts
  • 1.11.4 Analysis of presuppositions
  • 1.11.5 Artefacts
  • 1.11.6 Agencies and practices
  • 1.11.7 Synthetic correlations
  • 1.11.8 Hypothetical speculation
  • 1.11.9 Agency within natural environments
  • 1.11.10 Basic societal problems and the origins of symbolic orders
  • 1.11.11 Agency and symbolic orders
  • 1.11.12 Agency coordinated by means of language
  • 1.11.13 Economics
  • 1.11.14 Analogical reasoning
  • 1.11.15 Middle-range theories
  • 1.11.16 Explanatory narratives
  • 1.11.17 Connectivities between the past and the present
  • 1.11.18 Anthropology on top?
  • 1.12 Results of the analysis: Sets of concepts
  • Part 2: Historical materialism reloaded: The transformative emergence of economic life
  • 2.1 Historical materialism reloaded
  • 2.2 Claim
  • 2.3 Investing economic theories
  • 2.4 On Marxian legacies in contemporary historical materialism
  • 2.5 Explaining the thesis in detail
  • 2.6 Household economics and the domestic mode of production
  • 2.7 Anatomy of economic transformation
  • 2.7.1 Original egalitarianism.
  • 2.7.2 Foraging among hunters and gatherers
  • 2.7.3 Scarcity
  • 2.7.4 Sedentism
  • 2.7.5 Territories and "Landnahme"
  • 2.7.6 Surplus
  • 2.7.7 Storage
  • 2.7.8 Division of labour
  • 2.7.9 Modes of exchange
  • 2.7.10 Property rights
  • 2.7.11 Inequality
  • 2.7.12 Hierarchies and heterarchies
  • 2.8 Result: Emergence of economic life and the "thin" Anthropocene
  • Part 3: Origins of the Anthropocene in the Neolithic
  • 3.1 Introduction and outline
  • 3.2 Challenges of the Anthropocene
  • 3.3 Sophocles: The chorus song in the "Antigone"
  • 3.4 The eclipse of qualities into quantities
  • 3.4.1 Shipping
  • 3.4.2 Fishing with nets
  • 3.4.3 Husbandry and domestication
  • 3.4.4 Agriculture
  • 3.4.5 Urbanism
  • 3.4.6 Cutting forests
  • 3.5 Preliminary results
  • Part 4: Prehistoric archaeology and contemporary ethics: Prospects for a "good" Anthropocene
  • 4.1 Diagnosis
  • 4.2 Program and claim
  • 4.3 Normative investments
  • 4.4 Universalism and particularism
  • 4.5 Ethical framework
  • 4.5.1 Discourse ethics
  • 4.5.2 Environmental ethics
  • 4.5.3 Strong sustainability
  • 4.5.4 Political philosophy and deliberative democracy
  • 4.6 Why and how a second axial age should be different
  • 4.7 "Greening" the Anthropocene with the help of prehistoric archaeology (PA)
  • 4.8 On degrowth theories
  • 4.9 Outline of the method: Historical laboratories and "do-it-yourself" strategies
  • 4.10 Ways ahead
  • 4.10.1 Animals and animal economies
  • 4.10.2 Food, dishes, cuisine
  • 4.10.3 Gardening
  • 4.10.4 Domestic modes of production
  • 4.10.5 Agriculture
  • 4.10.6 Biodiversity and biophilia
  • 4.10.7 Treatment of waste
  • 4.11 Results and outlooks: System and lifeworld
  • 4.11.1 Looking back to previous parts
  • 4.11.2 Rethinking complexity and evolution
  • 4.11.3 Social systems, heterarchy, and freedom
  • 4.11.4 The lifeworld and its colonisation.
  • 4.11.5 Mirroring ourselves in prehistoric lives
  • 4.11.6 Going public
  • References
  • Abbreviations
  • Blank Page.

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