Comparative Metaphysics

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the collection assembles an impressive cast of anthropologists and philosophers from across the Anglo-French academic divide ... a profound disciplinary recomposition arising from the encounter between anthropology and philosophy. * Radical Philosophy * In short, this more or less voluminous book. . . is of great importance to those interested in some of the most important debates of contemporary anthropology in general. [Translated from original Spanish] * Anthropos * This is an exceptionally stimulating collection of essays by seriously brilliant writers. If you think the ontological turn is simply something to be for or against this is not for you. But if you are after some powerfully reflexive thinking that puts the comparative at the foundation of existence then this will not only make you 'turn', it will make you jump, dig tunnels and fly. -- Ghassan Hage FAHA, Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory, University of Melbourne Inspired the turn among some anthropologists away from culture and nature, the editors of Comparative Metaphysics gather together a who's who of contemporary French, British, and American philosophy and anthropology to ask what discipline has the best chance to define the multiple, irreducible forms of thought that count as ontology and thus to open thought to the crisis of contemporary anthropogenic climate change. -- Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University