
The Culture of Ethics
Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
Published on 15. December 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
120 pages
978-0-9842010-4-4 (ISBN)
Description
What is ethics? Is it a system of transcendent moral imperatives, or can it be produced by ordinary people in everyday life? Do the daily rules of interaction constitute a code of ethics? In The Culture of Ethics, renowned anthropologists Franco La Cecla and Piero Zanini address these questions in a series of thought-provoking reflections that draw their inspiration from diverse sources, ranging from fieldwork in Papua New Guinea to cinematic depictions of the Ten Commandments. An engaging and accessible contribution to the emerging interest in "ordinary ethics," The Culture of Ethics explores what anthropology has to offer on the question of how we ought to live.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 175 mm
Width: 112 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
68 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9842010-4-4 (9780984201044)
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Persons
Franco La Cecla is an anthropologist and architect who has taught in Milan, Venice, Palermo, Barcelona, and Paris. He lives in Barcelona and is the author of several books, including Pasta and Pizza, also published by Prickly Paradigm Press. Piero Zanini is a senior researcher at the Laboratoire Architecture Anthropologie de l'Ecole nationale superieure de Paris-La Villette. He lives in Paris.