As Wide as the World Is Wise: Reinventing Philosophical Anthropology

by Michael D. Jackson

Philosophy and anthropology have long debated questions of difference: rationality versus irrationality, abstraction versus concreteness, modern versus premodern. What if these disciplines instead focused on the commonalities of human experience? Would this effort bring philosophers and anthropologists closer together? Would it lead to greater insights across historical and cultural divides?

In As Wide as the World Is Wise, Michael...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023117828X
• ISBN13: 9780231178280
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher