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This essay attempts to reconceptualize temporality as it relates to ethics, by interrupting dominant anthropological notions of time—most particularly the temporal coherence of narrative unity—which are homogeneous and empty.
Eschewing the more commonly understood notion of anthropology as ethnographic
thick description, this essay is a practice of anthropological hermeneutics by
which I take a cue from my Muscovite interlocutors to disrupt dominant
anthropological conceptions of temporal unity within which action is considered
to take place, and in so doing, reveal temporalization as the process by which
ethical action becomes possible.
Publication details
Zigon, Jarrett
Journal of Religious Ethics
42 (3): 1467-9795
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