Epistemology, Economics, and Ethics : A Practical Philosophy of Prehistoric Archaeology.
| 1. Verfasser: |
Ott, Konrad.
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|---|---|
| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Leiden :
Sidestone Press,
2024.
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. |
| Umfang/Format: |
258 pages |
| Schriftenreihe: |
ROOTS Studies
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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.
