Reflecting on Reflexivity The Human Condition as an Ontological Surprise [Paperback]

Humanness supposes innate and profound reflexivity. This volume approaches the concept of reflexivity on two different yet related analytical planes. Whether implicitly or explicitly, both planes of thought bear critically on reflexivity in relation to the nature of selfhood and the very idea of the autonomous individual, ethics, and humanness, science as such and social science, ontological dualism and fundamental ambiguity. On the one plane, a collection of original and innovative ethnographically based essays is offered, each of which is devoted to ways in which reflexivity plays a fundamental role in human social life and the study of it; on the otheranthropo-philosophical and developed in the volumes Preface, Introduction, and Postscriptit is argued that reflexivity distinguishesdefinitively, albeit relativelythe being and becoming of the human.

Don Handelmanis Sarah Allen Shaine Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the Hebrew University and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

T. M. S. (Terry) Evensis Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Christopher Robertsis Professor of Humanities and Religion at Lewis and Clark College.

Preface
Terry Evens, Don Handelman, and Christopher Roberts

Introduction:Reflexivity and Selfhood
Terry Evens, Don Handelman, and Christopher Roberts

SECTION I: REFLEXIVITY, SOCIAL SCIENCE, AND ETHICS

Chapter 1.Is There a Difference between Doing Good and Doing Good Research: Anthropology and Social Activism, or the Productive Limits of Reflexivity
Terry Evens

Chapter 2.The Ethic of Being Wrong: TlS(