Moral Engines

Cheryl Mattingly is Professor of Anthropology at University of Southern California. She is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow and has received numerous awards from the American Anthropological Association, including the Victor Turner Prize, the Stirling Prize and the New Millennium Prize. Her most recent book is Moral Laboratories: Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life (University of California Press 2014).

“All the chapters show, in their own way, that philosophical anthropology offers a very sophisticated approach to understand how humans live… The dialogue between anthropology and philosophy that underlies this volume has clearly enriched the understanding of ethical drives in human life.” • History of the Human Sciences“Overall the text offers an insightful interdisciplinary discussion on the topics of morality and ethics, albeit a conflicted title and theme as is made evident by many of the authors’ concerns with the idea and term ‘moral engines’ throughout the volume. A fascinating read for those interested in the in the field regardless of what side of the fence one sits.” • Irish Journal of Anthropology“This is an excellent collection of essays that contributes to the growing anthropological literature on morality and ethics. It addresses the current debates in a new and useful way.” • Johan Rasanayagam, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen“This stimulating volume suggests a new metaphor to reshape this central question to moral theory within an anthropological perspective.” • Samuel Leze, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon

• PrologueCheryl MattinglyChapter 1. The Question of 'Moral Engines': Introducing a Philosophical Anthropological DialogueRasmus Dyring, Cheryl Mattingly, and Maria LouwPART I: MORAL ENGINES AND HUMAN EXPERIENCEChapter 2. Ethics, Immanent Transcendence and the Experimental Narrative Self  Cheryl MattinglyChapter 3. Being Otherwise: On Regret, Morality, and MoodJason ThroopChapter 4. Haunting as Moral Engine: Ethical Striving and Moral Aporias among Sufis in UzbekistanMaria LouwChapter 5. Every Day: Forgiving after War in Northern UgandaLotte MeinertChapter 6. The Provocation of FreedomRasmus DyringPART II: MORAL ENGINES AND 'MORAL FACTS'Chapter 7. On the Immanence of EthicsMichael LambekChapter 8. Where in the World are Values? Exemplarity and Moral MotivationJoel RobbinsChapter 9. Fault Lines in the Anthropology of EthicsJames LaidlawPART III: MORAL ENGINES AND THE HUMAN CONDITIONChapter 10. An Ethics of Dwelling and a Politics of Worldbuilding: Responding to the Demands of the Drug WarJarrett ZigonChapter 11. Human, the Responding Being:  Considerations Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of ResponsivenessThomas Schwarz WentzerChapter 12. The History of ResponsibilityFrancois RaffoulIndex